 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pagina’s
...particular tax falling unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain... | |
 | 1811 - 858 pagina’s
...plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 542 pagina’s
...tax falling unequally even upon that particular fort of private revenue which is affected by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 860 pagina’s
...plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pagina’s
...; that is, in proportion 'to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1826 - 302 pagina’s
...of his family, the other enjoins no such necessity, for his family will enjoy the income by descent. "2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay,...arbitrary." "3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time and in the manner in which it is likely to be most convenient to the contributor to pay it." This is... | |
 | 1826 - 1138 pagina’s
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1827 - 542 pagina’s
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1891 - 1086 pagina’s
...any of the people in proportion to their means, The second principle of sound taxation is that— " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary." Now the Paddy Tax, as we have seen> has been raised in the most capricious and arbitrary fashion. One... | |
 | 1831 - 202 pagina’s
...support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities. 2nd. The Tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain. 3rd. Every Tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the Poor,... | |
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The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. 
