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 II. Three Boston object lessons in taxation

Collection:: Economics Books

5 6 THE A B C OF TAXATION to one of the most important business thoroughfares in the heart of the shopping district of Boston, an impressive lesson in the inequalities of the present system of taxation. In this and the following object lessons the valua tions, unless otherwise noted, are those of 1907. The total valuations on both sides of Winter Street includ ing the estates on the Tremont and Washington Street corners were: 1898 $5,142,600 LAND $61.57 per sq. ft. $2,681,989 per acre 1907 8,272,000 97.50 per sq. ft. 4,247,100 per acre 1898 $675,000 BUILDINGS $8.08 per sq. ft. $ 353.836 per acre 1907 605,200 7 ■ I 3 P er s q- ft- 310,582 per acre Showing for nine years an increase of 58 per cent in land, and a decrease of 11 per cent in buildings. The assessed valuation of the estate at the southwest corner of Winter and Washington Streets (Fig. I), was in 1907, 1557,000, of which $19,400 was for buildings. The land alone, 1,955 square feet, increased from $342,000, $175 per square foot, in 1898, to $537,600, banquet in a series of seventeen given by the League during the years 1897-1903 to the following bodies: (1) Patrons of Husbandry; (2) Association of Massachusetts Assessors; (3) Labour Organisations; 4) Massachusetts Woman’s Suffrage Association; (5) New England Free Trade League; (6) The Massachusetts Clergy; (7) Young Men’s Christian Association; (8) Boards of Charities and Corrections; (9) Representative Taxationists; (10) Representative Business Men; (n) Twentieth Century Club; (12) Real Estate Men; (13) The Catholic Clergy; (14) Members Boston Merchants’ Association; (15) Political Economists; (16) Professional Economists; (17) Landlords of Boston, followed by (18) A Dinner-Discussion of the Economic Club of Boston, and (19) Lorimer Hall, Finale.

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