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• A scheme or proposal for taking off the several taxes on land, soap, starch : Candles, Leather, Plate, Pots, &c. and replacing the said duties by another tax, which will bring in more Money, in a more Easy and Equal Manner, and less burthensome to the Subject: Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament, as also the People of England, for whose Ease and Benefit this is design'd. Plainly proving, That the Duties on Soap, Candles, and Leather, which do not bring in 600,000 l. a Year, cost the Subject more than double that Sum: So that this Method is calculated to ease the People of one Half of the Sum they now pay, on Account of those several Taxes, and at the same Time Encrease the Revenue. To which is added, Some Considerations on the several Duties upon Tea, Coffee, Chocolat, and Salt, which may be also taken off, and replaced by the same Method, with any Thing else, that is either burthensome to Trade, or a Hardship upon particular Persons, of which the Pot-Act is a glaring Instance; and upon any Emergency a larger Sum may be raised
  Published: (1733)
• Relative taxation, or, Observations on the impolicy of taxing malt, hops, beer, soap, candles, and leather : with a view of the manner in which the duties imposed upon them affect the different kinds of land, whether in grass or tillage, and their constant tendency to increase pauperism
  by: Vaux, Thomas
  Published: (1823)
• Some thoughts on the land-tax, general excises, and the least burthensome way of raising taxes : occasion'd by the London journal on the subject
  Published: (1733)
• Some thoughts on the land-tax, general excises, and the least burthensome way of raising taxes : occasion'd by the London Journal on that subject
  Published: (1733)
• A scheme plainly demonstrating how several hundred thousand pounds may be rais'd yearly to the government : without officers to collect it, without oppression to the poor, without hurting trade, and without any person's being oblig'd to pay it, but when he pleases so to do, and by which the duty on soap and candles is proposed to be taken off
  by: Downes, Thomas
  Published: (1732)