FISCAL PROBLEMS.
LAND TAX PROPOSALS, CONDEMNED BY PROFESSIONAL MEN. DUTY ON MINERALS TO BE DROPPED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received July 13, 8.25 a.m.) LQNDON, 12th July. The Surveyors' Association severely condemns the tax on undeveloped land, which, they assert, will force land upon the market before it is wanted. The Liverpool Law Society has published a memorandum showing the enormous cost of making valuations. Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., in a speech at a miners' demonstration at Dean, in Gloucestershire, stated that the duty on ungotten minerals will be dropped. He objected to the substitution of a tax on royalties, and preferred that minesshould be taxed as undeveloped land^
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1909, Page 7
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110FISCAL PROBLEMS. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1909, Page 7
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