HOUSE OF COMMONS, Monday
ASSESSED TAXES ACT.
The House went into committee on the Assessed Taxes Act
On of the resolution for imposing the house tax,
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Sir W. JOLLIFFE (Petersfield) said that a great many houses in the country which had not been subjected to the window tax, would be subjected to the house tax, and amongst these were many farm houses.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS (Lambeth) good leaved that of the 400,000 houses which would come under the tax, about two-thirds were in the metropolis. It would seem as though the Chancellor of the Exchequer, being annoyed at the agitation in London against the window tax, had proposed the house tax as a punishment. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted money, let him obtain it by doing an act of justice; let him propose the extension of the probate and legacy duty to real property. Under a house tax half the shops in Regent-street would pay a higher amount than some of the principal mansions of the nobility.
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