The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin

Title:: The ABC of taxation

Edition:: Fourth edition specially revised

Place of publication:: Garden City, New York

Publisher:: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. Appendix

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/ 18 4 THE A B C OF TAXATION in that statement was official, and was followed by the return of Dr. McGlynn to active duty. E A PROTEST AGAINST UNJUST TAXATION The following remarks were addressed by the author to the assessors of the City of Newton, Mass., less with the idea of securing an economic advantage through a deduction of his tax payments than by reason of a hope that he might strike a blow for the acceptance of single tax principles of taxation. “Gentlemen— I am assessed on my house lot, Newtonville Avenue and Bellevue Street, 20,264 square feet, at fifteen cents a foot; on additional land, less desirable, facing on Lewis Terrace, 17,496 feet, valued at ten cents a foot, in all — On land, $4,750 at $16.20 per thousand $76.95 Onhouse,$9,oooat$i6.zoperthousand 145.80 Personal estate and water tax . . . . . . . 74-4° Total $297.15 “To the valuation of the land, which is fair and reasonable, I make no objection. Against so large a tax upon my house I desire to protest, and I respectfully ask its abatement not only because the actual cost of the house was fictitious and exag gerated beyond any true market value, but because its selling value is greatly depreciated by the surroundings, which to-day would not justify a house of much more than half its pretensions. Not only have I by building my house contributed liberally to create the value of my neighbours’ land, but the best part of my substance has in the last ten or a dozen years been largely wasted in trying, by private improvement and adornment of both house and land, to counteract the adverse influences of coal yards and freight yards and steam whistles. I have thus attempted to rescue and protect my neighbours’ land values just

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