 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1853 - 742 psl.
...nevertheless proceeded to say that he shared in the feelings of those who considered that the tax pressed too hard upon intelligence and skill, and not hard enough upon property; and he then set to work to repair that injustice by laying the additional burden upon the owners of... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1862 - 430 psl.
...make large admissions ; to accept, as a matter of feeling at least, the doctrine that " the Income Tax bears, upon the whole, too hard upon intelligence...property, as compared with intelligence and skill;" and yet, making these CHAP, IV admissions, he can venture to ask, not only for lg a renewal of the... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1862 - 424 psl.
...make large admissions ; to accept, as a matter of feeling at least, the doctrine that " the Income Tax bears, upon the whole, too hard upon intelligence...property, as compared with intelligence and skill;" and yet, making these CHAP. IV admissions, he can venture to ask, not only for ,8 a renewal of the... | |
 | Sydney Buxton - 1901 - 216 psl.
...the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, with respect to the inequality of the tax, namely that it " bears upon the whole too hard upon intelligence and...skill, and not hard enough upon property as compared to intelligence and skill," an extension was to be made in the taxation of realised property by means... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone, Arthur Tilney Bassett - 1916 - 724 psl.
...ourselves, as a matter of feeling, are disposed to defer to, and to share in, is, that the income tax bears upon the whole too hard upon intelligence and...propose, but the object which the reconstructors of the income tax have in view. Well, if that be their object — if they think that at present skill and... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1916 - 736 psl.
...ourselves, as a matter of feeling, are disposed to defer to, and to share in, is, that the income tax bears upon the whole too hard upon intelligence and...propose, but the object which the reconstructors of the income tax have in view. Well, if that be their object — if they think that at present skill and... | |
 | 1853 - 1008 psl.
...to act, in connection with the general system of the taxation, upon the sentiment that the tax bore too hard upon intelligence and skill, and not hard enough upon property. They proposed to renew the tax for two years, from April, 1853, at the present rate of Id. in the pound;... | |
 | David Charles Douglas, George Malcolm Young, W. D. Handcock - 1996 - 1050 psl.
...ourselves, as a matter of feeling, are disposed to defer to, and to share in, is, that the income tax bears upon the whole too hard upon intelligence and...propose, but the object which the reconstructors of the income tax have in view. Well, if that be their object-if they think that at present skill and intelligence... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1907 - 972 psl.
...to defer to and share in, is that under our present financial arrangements the incometax bears, on the whole, too hard upon intelligence and skill, and...property as compared with intelligence and skill." | Mr. Gladstone went further and'jindicated that if the income-tax was to be permanent it could only... | |
 | 1907 - 1210 psl.
...defer to, and to share in, is that under our present financial arrangements the Income-tax bears, on the whole, too hard upon intelligence and skill, and...property as compared with intelligence and skill. Mr. Gladstone went on to say that the main question was one between land and trade, and proceeded to... | |
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... And pray understand me. Do not let me through my neglect be misapprehended, or fail to state clearly the position of the Government. What we understand to be the sentiment of the country, and what we ourselves, as a matter of feeling, are disposed... 