LAND TAXATION,

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 July 1909, Page 7

LAND TAXATION,

FINANCE BILL IN COMMITTEE. A CONCESSION MADE. APPEALS TO BE ALLOWED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) •LONDON, 7th July. During the Budget debate in the House of Common 6 'Mr. 'Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to a strong; recommendation from both sides of the House, promised to insert a clause in the Finance Bill allowing Vn appeal from the decision of the com-" missioner i«garding the assessment of the increment value for taxation purposes REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES. HELD TO BE UNJUSTIFIED. LONDON, 7th 'July. Lord A.vebury, in a letter to the press, affirms that Mr. Lloyd-George's figures show there is nothing in the state o£ tho national finances requiring or justifying so fundamental and revolutionary a change in the system of taxation. 'Moreover, he declares, the 'Budget proposals in some cases are not j taxation, but confiscation. : Estate agents, mining engineers, and solicitors, representing the bulk of the Yorkshire and 'Midlands -coalfields, who ■have been in conference at Sheffield, | adopted a resolution declaring that the I penalties imposed by the land and | mineral taxation clauses of the Finance j •Bill were excessive, and the Bill was | despotic in not allowing the unrestricted right of appeal against assessments. j [This last objection is met by the j Chancellor of the Exchequer's concession j reported to-day.] ! - i