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(2) A year for which income tax is charged is called a "tax year". (3) A tax year begins on 6 April and ends on the following 5 April. (4) "The tax year 2007–08" means the tax year beginning on 6 April 2007 (and any corresponding expression in which two years are similarly mentioned is to be read in the same way). [48]
In the last year of the reign, returns from these taxes were respectively—land tax (at 2s.), £990,000, customs £1,540,000, excise £986,000, or a total exceeding £3.5 million. The removal of regular export duty applied to domestic woollen manufactures and corn only, both cases additionally being due to special reasons of policy.
The tax year is sometimes also called the "fiscal year". A company's accounting year, which has some relevance for corporation tax purposes, can be chosen by the company and often runs from 1 April to 31 March, in line with the fiscal year. The British personal tax year runs from 6 to 5 April in the following year. [32]
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The tax was found ineffective and abolished by 1706. [16] [17] [13] [3] England 1798 Yes An income tax was passed particularly discriminating against bachelors [17] [13] United States, Missouri 1821 Yes Missouri applied a $1 tax on all unmarried men. [18] By the following year, it was replaced by a poll tax. [19] United States, New York 1825 No
Pitt's new graduated (progressive) income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence in the pound (1 ⁄ 120 or 0.83%) on annual incomes over £60 and increased up to a maximum of 2 shillings (10%) on incomes of over £200. Pitt hoped that the new income tax would raise £10 million, but actual receipts for 1799 totalled just over £6 million. [18]
No. 10 Highest: New Hampshire. Living in New Hampshire, the cradle of New England, can seem idyllic until you look at property taxes. The average property tax rate is 1.25%.
Taxation itself took a number of forms in this period. The main tax was the geld, still based on the land, and unique in Europe at the time as being the only land tax that was universal on all the king's subjects, not just his immediate feudal tenants and peasants. It was still assessed on the hide, and the usual rate was 2 shillings per hide.