Excerpt from Parliament and the Taxpayer To the ordinary man the procedure Of the House of Commons on Estimates and Appropriation, the work of its Committees on Expenditure, the whole machinery of National Finance, seem distant and mysterious. But the tax-collector's demand note is not distant. The measures taken to enforce its payment are not mysterious. And there is a very Close connection between the figures that appear at the foot of the demand note and the financial procedure in Parliament. In the years before the ...
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Excerpt from Parliament and the Taxpayer To the ordinary man the procedure Of the House of Commons on Estimates and Appropriation, the work of its Committees on Expenditure, the whole machinery of National Finance, seem distant and mysterious. But the tax-collector's demand note is not distant. The measures taken to enforce its payment are not mysterious. And there is a very Close connection between the figures that appear at the foot of the demand note and the financial procedure in Parliament. In the years before the war, the steady growth of the public expenditure gave rise to an increasing interest, on the part of the taxpayer, in the Parlia mentary measures for financial control. During the war, the immense burden of the new taxes, borne cheerfully enough in the heat of patriotic enthusiasm, has led, nevertheless, to a strong and widespread demand for a more active scrutiny by the House of Commons of the purposes for which the taxes are levied and the methods by which they are spent. After the war, in more normal times, the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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