 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...individual is bound to pay aught n8 to be certain. — The time of payment, the manner of pay-r rnent, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other pcrfon. — "Where it isotherwije, every perfon fulijcft to the tax is put more or lefs in the power... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and...plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 858 pages
...contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and...to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contrir butor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...unequally even upon that particular fort of private revenue which is affefted by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and...arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, thq quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other perfon.... | |
 | 1811 - 854 pages
...people. According to the present system, the sum which each person is bound to pay is not certain, but arbitrary : the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other per. son ; whereas it is an established... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1811 - 860 pages
...contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 668 pages
...people. According to the present system, the sum which each person is bound to pay is not certain, but arbitrary : the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other person ; whereas it is an established... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities. 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 is most likely to be convenient... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...proportion 'to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and...be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every person. 3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to... | |
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The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person. 
