Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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CHAP, III] THE CONFERENCE OF 1911 13) y 1) Income Tax and Death Duties On these heads no progress could be effected. The Imperial Exchequer was not in a position to sacrifice the revenue derived from double income-tax,! and Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that there could be no real reciprocity, as Great Britain lent money largely and the Dominions did not, so that the Dominions alone would gain by the principle of allowing the duty to be charged only in the Dominions. Mr. Lloyd George, however, promised to see whether the same rule as to death duties could be adopted and a deduction made of the part charged in the Dominions, but this proved impracticable. Nor on administrative grounds could he see his way to alter the rule of the Finance Act, 1910, under which residents in the Colonies could not obtain exception on dividends from British securities. As regards death duties it was not possible to find a solution of the difficulty as to the locality of assets. The Imperial Government could not accept the South African view under which the assets are situated where the company operates, and unless that view is abandoned, s. 20 of the Finance Act, 1894. cannot be applied.? (k) Coinage and Weights and Measures Mr. Batchelor 3 moved on June 2, on behalf of the Common- wealth Government, their resolution in favour of the reform of the system of weights and measures and coins. He explained that the Commonwealth were prepared to adopt the metric system, but they could not usefully do so unless Great Britain and New Zealand also adopted it, and if the © Cd. 5745, pp. 358-64; 5746-1, pp. 266-70. * General Botha (pp. 364 seq.) pressed that incorporation should b> the test of locus of shares in any company, and he also intimated that, if they so desired, the Union Parliament could prevent (no doubt by requiring all transfers to be local) shares in companies registered in South Africa being situate in law in the United Kingdom. Mr. Malan (p. 367) suggested that in any case deduction of the Colonial duties be allowed. but Mr. George was not favourable. ? Ibid., pp. 165, 166.

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