... for some time been very eccentric in his manner. Lip-service of Ljkeral M.P.'s. In a report just issued the Newspapo* Stamp Duty Abolition Committee allude when there is no chance of success. The accession of Mr. D'lsraeli and about forty Conservatives ...

... although Mr. | pledged himself to introduce a measure for the a D y .of the newspaper stamp, we can hardly congratuia jl ! nation at large upon the substitute for that stamp- true that this is at all events a step in the right dir fl f I and we may anticipate ...

... THE PAPER DUTY. There are, perhaps, few taxes which could he selected out of the long list of those which contribute to the British Exchequer, more impolitic, injurious, and inquisitorial, than the duty on paper. It is one of those duties which, by the ...

... booth iustead of it. When they ask for the abolition of the penuy stamp in the name of the public, I ask what would the public get by h i It would be pure fu igc at this time to endeavour to separate the penny stamp from the privilege of postage. That privilege ...

... THE PAPER DUTY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The Scotsman underitauds that it is * almost certain 1 ' that the Government will resign in the event of Lord Monteagle's amendment on the Paptr Duty BsjpM* Bill being successful. Efforts are being made to create ...

... paper duty. He was sorry to say that at a meeting of this association on Thursday in last week, a Mr. Holyoake moved that thetaxes on knowledge, viz., the newspaper stamp aud advertisement duties, should be connected with the repeal of the paper duty in ...

... THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION. a curious coincidence the duty on Attorneys' Certificates and the Advertisement Duty amount to the same sum, being £80,000 in each case, and the claimants for repeal both invoke the Chancellor of the ...

... classes. Its scale of charges for Advertisements moderate, having been reduced since the abolition of the Advertisement Duty. When prepaid, which can be done postage stamp-. Advertisements of lines, or 30 words, are inserted for Is. fid., md lines, or 6 ' ...

... certificates reduced No alteration. one-third, and stamp from 1 £120 to £80. Abolition of tax on newspaper No alteration. supplements, and reduction . of advertisement duty from Is. 6d. to 6d. Duty cabs and hackney No reduction. coaches from Is. sd ...

... appreciation of the important considerations involved* in the taxation of the newsl paper press. The Stamp Duty he has not touched at all ; and the Advertisement Duty he proposes to deal with such a way that, while immense pecuniary bonus will be given to the ...

... remissions proposed to be effected :— EXCISE. Abolition of the Soap Tax £1,126,000 STAMPS. Reduction of the duty on life assurance from 2s. 6d. per cent to b'd. per cent 29,000 Reduction of receipt stamps from the present scale, ranging from 3d. to 10s ...

... edition the stamped issue additional charge. The Government officials Somerset were not the least detrree moved by this act of generosity exacted a second duty of 3s. (id. om every advertisement the two editions of the same paper. The duty alone amounted ...