Download or read book Suggested Taxation of War-Time Increases of Wealth written by Great Britain Board of Inland Revenue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Suggested Taxation of War-Time Increases of Wealth: Memoranda Submitted by the Board of Inland Revenue to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Increases of Wealth (War) Mr. Chamberlain If a duty be imposed upon war-time increases of wealth I should propose that the amount of the duty Should be computed as at a date which is now past, and by reference to the circumstances then existing. Devices of the kind alluded to by my hon. And gallant Friend would be ineffectual to circumvent a duty so constructed, while, on the other hand, increases of wealth now arising would be entirely outside its scope. There is, therefore, no reason why the possibility of such a tax being imposed at some future date should interfere with the free development of business enterprise at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.