| Robert Mackenzie Johnston - Economics - 1921 - 500 pages
...is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. " 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person.... | |
| Adelbert Grant Fradenburgh - Economics - 1921 - 392 pages
....the average man having an income of $7,000. The second of Adam Smith's canons is self-explanatory: "The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person."... | |
| Otto Eckstein - Finance, Public - 1927 - 812 pages
...is, in proportion to the revenue which 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 form of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid ought all to be clear and plain to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Taxation - 1961 - 862 pages
...that is, in proportion to the revenue which 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. (3) Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1964 - 800 pages
...results of delay and complexity in tax assessments and coitions is highly pertinent today.1 He said: The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and not itrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be d, ought all to be clear and... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 pages
...that is, in proportion to the revenue which 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. 3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time or in the manner in which it ia most likely to be convenient... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - Income tax - 1977 - 112 pages
...Act GAO General Accounting Office IRS Internal Revenue Service SECA Self-Employment Contribution Act "The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be... | |
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