British Incomes and Property: The Application of Official Statistics to Economic Problems

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P. S. King & son, Limited, 1916 - 537 pages

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Page 31 - Charity,' in its legal sense comprises four principal divisions; trusts for the relief of poverty: trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under any of the preceding heads.
Page 51 - Where any house, being one property, shall be divided into, and let in, different tenements, and any of such tenements are occupied solely for the purposes of any trade or business...
Page 22 - Sixth. — -Of all other profits arising from lands, tenements, hereditaments, or heritages not in the actual possession or occupation of the party to be charged, and not before enumerated, on a fair and just average of such number of years as the...
Page 31 - Property of any Literary or Scientific Institution used solely for the Purposes of such Institution, and in which no Payment is made or demanded for any Instruction there afforded, by Lectures or otherwise; provided also, that the said Building be not occupied by any Officer of such Institution, nor by any Person paying Rent for the same...
Page 31 - Or on the rents and profits of lands, tenements, hereditaments, or heritages belonging to any hospital, public school, or almshouse, or vested in trustees for charitable purposes, so far as the same are applied to charitable purposes...
Page 141 - Upon every public office or employment of profit, and upon every annuity, pension, or stipend, payable by Her Majesty, or out of the public revenue of the United Kingdom (except annuities before charged to the duties in Schedule C), for every twenty shillings of the annual amount thereof respectively there is chargeable a duty after the rate of sevenpence.
Page 119 - ... such as electric telegraph cables and shipping, foreign and colonial branches of banks, insurance companies, and mercantile houses in the United Kingdom ; mortgages of property and other loans and deposits abroad belonging to banks, insurance companies, land, mortgage and financial companies, etc. in this country ; profits of all kinds arising from business done abroad by manufacturers, merchants, and commission agents resident in the United Kingdom.
Page 31 - For the amount of the land tax charged on lands, tenements, hereditaments, or heritages under the said Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, where the charge thereon shall not have been redeemed : Sixth.
Page 51 - ... person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine or other liquors...
Page 71 - For and in respect of all profits arising from interest, annuities, dividends, and shares of annuities payable to any person, body politic or corporate, company or society, whether corporate or not corporate, out of any public revenue...