The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

FACTS AND FIGURES FOR TAX-PAYERS.

[lssued by the Liverpool Financial Reform Association I
The total amount of the national debt, funded
and unfunded, on the 31st of March, 1856,
was
£807,816,8
The interest and charges thereon were 28,806,m
Nearly the whole of this monstrous burden was
incurred for wars against America and France,
carried on for aristocratic purposes, and, as
regards France, for the alleged protection of
the property of the kingdom from foreign
conquest.
Property ought, therefore to bear a large pro.
portion of the burden, but how stands the,
fact ?
The total net revenue from taxes, excluding
Crown lands, in the year ending March 31st,
on 00
1856, was ....
f v ,
The net produce of the income and property tax 15,16 v,'4/
Suppose one half of the sum to have been paid
by land, under Schedules A
and B ..
Add laud tax .. ...
.. 1,161,201
And the total proportion of the tax
borne by land was
.. ....... -----. 8,7-40 '0
The net produce of the customs and excise duties
in the same year was
To which the following were contributions :
Coffee ...... ...
Malt ...
Spirits .. ......
Sugar
Tea
Tobacco and snuff.. 5,006,698
Wine ....... ..
16,181

X35,61b,,
Thus there was levied on articles of general
consumption nearly five times as much as from
all the land in the kingdom ; and the taxes Oa
three articles only, coffee, sugar, and tea,
amounting to
Exceeded the contribution of real property to
the incom tax by....
To the net produce of customs and excise '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
e.
added cost of collection, interest and profit on capital 02313°10r
in payment of such duties, losses sustained by restriction
ol
prevention of trade, diminished employment for the indtot.
classes, and other incidents, which, being taken into calculal,s
show that the actual burden is at least double the sum t-a
finds its way into the National Exchequer. In other tilts
plainer words, indirect taxation, in order to realise Woe
vence for the Government, makes the country pay, °
shape or other, at least two shillings.
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It is also to be borne in mind that the effect of the dut;„,, the
corn, flour, meal, butter, cheese, eggs, &c., is to increase -st
price of all home grown prsduce of the same description bfi
least the amount of the duties on the foreign produce ; and lao
such duties are, therefore, to all intents and purposes proton'
duties.
Tax-payers, if you approve of that system of taxation .AlO
Dresses most heavily on the industrial classes, in order 'or
land owners, fund holders, and others best able to pay, lof
escape comparatively free, by all means demand the rer-.„0
the income and property tax. If you think that sy,stem 62`,,st*
and oppressive, sign the petition for a complete revision
fiscal system, equitable taxation, flee trade, and a
committee of the House of Commons, now lying for sige°;l
at the Mercury, Chronicle, and TIMES newspaper offiCej'isi
the Exchange and Lyceum news rooms, at the Fiale% 4.
Reform Association office, 6, York Buildings, Dale street, s
at other places.

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