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Finance Acts. In and after 1894 the Annual Taxing Acts, which had for a long time borne the short titles of 'Customs and Inland Revenue Acts,' have borne the short titles of 'Finance Acts.' The Finance Act incorporates the Budget which is the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual statement or report of the financial results of the past year, estimated expenditure and income of the coming year and proposals in regard to taxation. These proposals are passed into law by the Finance Act but are enforced as soon as a resolution of the Committee of Ways and Means agrees to them in order to prevent forestalling and anticipation in commodities. See Halsb. L.E., title 'Parliament (Ways and Means).'...
Corn Tax Abolition Act (English)
Corn Tax Abolition Act (English), 10 & 11 Vict. c. 46. This Act, however, left a duty of 1s. a quarter (measure) remaining-a duty repealed by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 4, reimposed under the guise of 3d. per cwt. By the Finance Act,1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 7), s. 1, but taken off again by the Finance Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 8) s. 1....
owner financing
owner financing a home purchase where the seller provides all or part of the financing, acting as a lender. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
Land-tax
Land-tax, means a tax laid upon land and houses, which in 1689 (1 Will. & Mary, c. 3) superseded all the former methods of taxing either property or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenth or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hydages, scutages, or talliages. Although generally a charge upon a landlord, yet it is a tax neither on landlord nor tenant, but on the beneficial proprietor, as distinguished from the mere tenant at rack-rent; and if a tenant have to any extent a beneficial interest, he becomes liable to the tax pro tanto, and can only charge the residue on his landlord. Houses and buildings appropriated to public purposes are not liable to land-tax. As to its origin and inequality, see 3 Hall. Cons. Hist. 135; Miller on the Land-tax; Bourdin on Land-tax.The more agricultural counties, upon which the burden of the tax has fallen most heavily by reason of the depreciation in value of agricultural land, were greatly relieved by s. 31 of the (English) Finance Act, 1896,...
Death duties
Death duties. These are (1) the Estate Duty, which, by the (English) Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), superseded the Probate or Administration Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815, and the Account Duty leviable under the (English) Customs and (English) Inland Revenue Act, 1881; (2) the Succession Duty leviable under the (English) Succession Duty Act, 1853; (English) and (3) the Legacy Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815:- duties leviable on the passing of property by the death of a person to his successors; (4) Settlement Estate Duty was abolished in respect of all deaths after 11th May, 1914, (English) Finance Act, 1914, s. 14. It consisted of 1 per cent., increased to 2 per cent. by the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, in addition to other duties on settled property. It was not payable on property settled before August 1st, 1894, and certain allowances are accorded by the (English) Finance Act of 1914. It is still payable in respect of deaths on or before May 11t...
Industrial Finance Corporation
Industrial Finance Corporation, means the Indus-trial Finance Corporation of India Limited formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956. [Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964, s. 2(d)]Means the Industrial Finance Corporation of India established under the Industrial Finance Corpora-tion Act, 1948. [Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934), s. 2 (c)]...
Income-tax
Income-tax, a tax of so much in the pound of income, under five classifications, according as derived from (A) ownership of land or houses, etc., (B) occupation of land or houses, etc., (C) dividends from stocks or shares, (D) professional or trade earnings or profits, and any profit not included in the four previous classifications, and (E) official and other salaries. The Acts on this subject, dating from the Income-tax Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 35), which, to a great extent, repeats the phraseology of Addington's Act of 1806, are very numerous. Voluntary Easter gifts to an incumbent are assessable to income-tax, Cooper v. Blakinston, 1909 AC 104. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Property Tax.'The tax in 1842, and for many years afterwards, was 7d. in the pound; in 1855,, the year of the Crime an War, it rose to 1s. 4d., and in 1918 to 6s. The Finance Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 13), for the first time differentiated (ss. 19 et seq.) between 'earned income' and income from other sources, and...
Estate duty
Estate duty. A duty first levied by the (English) Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), upon the principal value of all property, real or personal, settled or not settled, which passes or is deemed to pass on the death of a person after 1st August, 1894. Property 'passing' on death includes gifts or dispositions by the deceased to another person within three years of death, the estate duty taking the place of the 'account duty,' leviable on such gifts within twelve months of death, by virtue of s. 38 of the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1881, as amended by s. 11 of the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1889. Property 'passing' on death includes also settled property, in which the life interest is surrendered to the remainderman by the tenant for life within the three years before the death of the tenant for life, by virtue of s. 11 of the Finance Act, 1900 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 7), passed to alter the law as laid down by the Court of Appeal in Attorney-General v. de ...
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