The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

BY JOHANNES RIISTICUS.

IX. THE INCOME TAX.—It has been proposed by some
of the admirers of this most unequal impost to make up
the deficiency of post-office and stamp revenue, which will
arise on the adoption of the decimal system, by an increase
of the Income Tax. This would, no doubt, be a popular
measure with those financial reformers who, for political
or business purposes, are large patronisers of the penny
post, and who, at the same time, are able (and willing) so
to " cook " their Income Tax Returns as to be able to
evade a large proportion of the payment. But what an
outrage on common honesty it would be to annuitants,
clerks, and others, with small fixed incomes, who would
derive no benefit from a further reduction of postage, and
who have no chance of " declaring " for less than their
actual gross income ! For instance, suppose a merchant,
or manufacturer, or shopkeeper, with actual profits of
£5OOO per annum, employing a dozen clerks or shopmen,
at salaries from £lOO to £3OO, is called on to make a return
for Income Tax. The former may declare his profits to be
one-fourth, one-third, or even one-half less than they really
are ; but with this declaration he sends in a list of his em-
ploye's with their full salaries stated. He cheats the
government of a large portion of his own taxes, and as
it were bids them mulct his assistants for the deficiency.
Must these clerks or shopmen be still further plundered
to pay for their employers' correspondence and receipts ?
Let the hundreds of clerks and shopmen, foremen, ware-
housemen, and journeymen in Liverpool, see to this, and
ask themselves whether, when they have added the Income
Tax to their bakers' bills, they are not already paying too
dearly for Free Trade and Financial Reform ; and whether,
if they are entrusted with the franchise under the new
Reform Bill, they will not adopt some measure that will
adjust the balances more equitably.
X. THE NEXT ELECTION.—Mr. Robertson Gladstone
is surely seeking "the sweet voices " of the " finest
pisantry," located around Shaw's-brow, for the next elec-
tion. Having the vanity to consider himself of sufficient
purity to represent Marybone, Vauxhall-road, and Scotland
road, he steps boldly out, as the patron of the priests, and
defamer of the Protestant clergy, expecting his return, of
course, in the exercise, by the priests, of that gentle and
genial influence which they are accustomed at election
liras to use with their &eke. le this bribery by the act?

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