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" The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and every other person. (3) Every tax ought to... "
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Page 261
by Adam Smith - 1809
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 2

Europe - 1811 - 858 pages
...plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...tax falling unequally even upon that particular fort of private revenue which is affefted by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought...arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, thq quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other perfon....
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 1; Volume 2, Part 1

Walter Scott - Europe - 1811 - 860 pages
...plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 2, Part 1

1811 - 854 pages
...people. According to the present system, the sum which each person is bound to pay is not certain, but arbitrary : the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other per. son ; whereas it is an established...
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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ..., Volume 14

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 668 pages
...people. According to the present system, the sum which each person is bound to pay is not certain, but arbitrary : the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established...
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On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

David Ricardo - Classical school of economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities. 2. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. 3. " Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient...
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The Pamphleteer, Volumes 27-28

Great Britain - 1826 - 1138 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person....
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Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy

Thomas Cooper - Economics - 1826 - 302 pages
...of his family, the other enjoins no such necessity, for his family will enjoy the income by descent. "2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary." "3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time and in the manner in which it is likely to be most convenient...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 28

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1827 - 542 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person....
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1891 - 1086 pages
...any of the people in proportion to their means, The second principle of sound taxation is that— " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary." Now the Paddy Tax, as we have seen> has been raised in the most capricious and arbitrary fashion. One...
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