ABSTRACT
The peace of Amiens. Repeal of the income tax. Enormous increase in the taxes on beer. Increase in the assessed taxes. New duty on exports and imports in lieu of the convoy tax. Recommencement of the war. The income tax re-imposed at 5 per cent. Additional 2s. on malt, and additions for wine, spirits, tea, sugar, the port duties generally, cotton, exports and imports, and tonnage. Addington's last budget. Increase in the stamp duties. Pitt returns to office. The income tax raised to 6·10 per cent. ; the salt duty, to 15s. Austerlitz. Death of Pitt. The administration of All the Talents. The stream from the ‘ Petty ’ fountain. The income tax raised to 10 per cent. Increase for tea, sugar, and tobacco. Another general rise in the port duties. Proposals for taxes on pig iron and private brewing. Another 10 per cent. on the assessed taxes. Death of Fox. The Portland administration. Spencer Perceval's consolidations of the assessed taxes, the stamp duties, and the port duties. The Perceval administration. Assassination of Perceval. The Liverpool administration. Vansittart's first budget. Increase for leather, glass, and tobacco, establishments, and agricultural horses. In 1813, further increase on tobacco. A general rise in the port duties. Attempt to tax cotton. The first peace of Paris, 1814. The last taxes for the Great War.
