The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-22 00:00:00

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22) 1808.

DtJtIES ON PROFITS OF -FOREIGN -OA COLO-
. VIAL POSSESSIONS AND, SECURITIES: •
PHE Property Ad of the 46th of His. present
Majesty op ects, that Profits arising from FOreign Pos-
sessions or Foreign Securities, or in any of His Majesty's Do-
minionS beyond the Seas, shall' be assessed by the, Commis-
sioners acing for LONfMN, BRISTOL, LI V E R POO L,
or G,LASt.iO IV, at or nearest to which such Property shall
have been first imported, or at or nearest to which the Per-
son Who shall have received Remittances shall reside. And
the . Of. His -present Majesty direds. that 'whenever the.
Procittee or PLotits, arising as aforesaid. shall have been im-
parted_into or. received by any Pers4n, partly in the Port of
London, and partly in any. of the .Out-Ports above men.
tioned, the whole of such Produce' or Profits shall he AS..
sessecl.by the Commissioners of London, and not elsewhere;
and whenever such Produce or Profits shall have been
wholly imported into, or received by any PersOn in the ut-
Ports, above mentioned, but in different parts, in two or
more Of such Out-ports, the whole thereof shall. be Assessed
at that place• at which the major part in value shall have
been imported or received, provided that the Returns of; such
Produce or Profits shall be delivered to the Commissioners
at each of the places at which any part thereof shall have
been imported or received.
It being also further cliredecl by the said first mentioned
Ad of the 46th of His present Majesty,, that the Agent or
Receiver of such Produce or Profits slush' be charged JOT the
same, and hall be answerable for all. Ads required to be
done for assessing and paying the Duties on such Property,
whether the Owner or Proprietor he resident in Great Bri-
tain or not, under the Penalties-contained in the said Ads:
His Majesty's ComtnisSimers for the AlThirs of Taxes
hereby give notice, that stria Inquiries are now making as to
all . Property so imported or received, anti by syimoiu.or on
Whose account ; bat being; desirous to avoid tire inflietion of
Penalties, they hereby'require that all Persone who as Owners
or. Proprietors, or as Agents or Receivers of-Profits, or-of
Prapert-y. of the description above mentioned, shall have re-
ceived the same in Great Britain,. and who have neglected or
omitted to comply with the-provisions of the Aets now re-
cited, by not delivering full acad. complete Return 3 for the
current and any former year for which they may be in de- -
fault to the Commissioners of the respeetive places above
stated, according to the direetions therein contained, do forth.
with deliver such Returns, otherwise they -will be proceeded
against for the Penalties incurred by: such. omission and de-
fault.

That the said Commissioners having been informed that
several Estates stand charged with Annuities to Persons re.
siding in C rear Britain, payable outot the Proem& of the said
Estategond that it has become a.p ractice to deduct the Amount ,
of said Annuities from the Estimate of P rofits.thereby not only
reducing the Income of the Priptietnr, hitt coni:ealing the
-payment of said Annuities, think it necessary to state, that no
Annuity or Interest of Money vltarged on any Estate
Majesty's Foreign Dominions, ought to be deduct d from
the Estunate of the Profits, but ought to be included therein
as part of the Profits of the s.Estate payable to the Ann,trwts,
'odd that the Proprietors or their, Agents, are respec:iely
liable to the Duty to be charged thereon. And, that in all
cases where, atter payment of sin;li. Annuities, no profit
would rcoiain IQ be accounted for by. the Ploprietors or their
Agents, they are. bound to return the Amount of such An-
nuities, an to :te charged for them ILI all which cases, the
Proprietors or their Agents respectively are to 'deduct from
the respective Annuitants their proportion .of the Duty so
cliargedin respect..thereof..
lay Order of the Board,
°Tree for Taxes, MAYTHE kV WINTER, Sec.
Nov.;, tBcB.

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