... ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. TflE repeal of the advertisement duty naturally suggests a few remarks upon the altered state of things thus introduced. Ever trammelled with an impost which checked the spirit of enterprise, by limiting the facilities ...

... upon stamps, that should be done by commuting the present stamp upon all papers into a postage, instead of merely dealing with sup- plements. As we said last week, we should have been satisfied this year, with the reduction in the advertisement duty alone ...

... STAMPS ON MARINE INSURANCES, &c. THERE were four reasons why the motion for repealing the Stamps on Marine Insurances should have been ac- ceded to. First, the shipping interest, having been de- prived of their former legislative protection, ought to ...

... THE NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURN. A document has been published by the Government purporting to be a Return of the number of Stamps issued to - newSpapers throughout the United Kingdom in 1556-7. The abolition of the stamp duty so manifestly ...

... who desire the removal of those taxes oil intellectual light and health, the paper, the advertisement, and the newspaper-stamp duties. ...

... THE PAPER DUTY.—ITS BEARINGS UPON I SHIPOWNERS. I AV HEN we advocate the abolition of the advertise- men), duty, or the conversion of the newspaper stamp duty into a postage charge, there may be au imputa- tion of' class interest; though in ...

... house having gone into comniittee on the stamp,acts* Mr. Wilson moved a series of resolutions, prescribing the new schedule of stamp duties on bills of exchange and promissory notes. The duties on stamps up to £766 value having been agreed ...

... South Sea and other Annuities Commutation. South Sra and other Annuities, ProvisionfSr Payment. Excise Duty on Spirits. Stamp Duties. Stamp Duties, No. 2. Consolidated AnumUes, Ireland. Insurance on Lives Income Tax Exemption. Transfer of ...

... ble measure. That most indefensible duty of 2s. 6d. per cent. upon life assurances, is to be reduced to 6d., which we hope will be a prelude to its entire abolition, so often urged in the MERLIN. The stamp duties on receipts are to be reduced to a uniform ...

... yields in customs duty, £127,000 a year; so that the whole duty on coffee and chicory is £495,000. Now I venture to propose that we should employ a portion of overplus in reducing the duty on coffee (Hear, hear.) I propose to reduce the duty on coffee by one ...

... charge of selfish legislation. These duties are now to be made as nearly equable as can be; we shall add that, so long as transfer duties are con- tinued, those above £ 1,000, ought to be increased. In the stamp duties on mortgages and bonds, the Chancellor ...

... 1760, and both tea and sugar might now be made luxuries of the rich if duties enough were imposed upon them. The wine duties were duties of protection, differential, not revenue duties. There was a pressure with regard to that wine which, apart from any ...