The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
They could not, therefore, be assessed according to any rent roll. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The inferior ranks of people in the provinces are assessed in the second. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
No man subject to such a tax, it is evident, can ever be certain, before he is assessed, of what he is to pay. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The largest falls upon those subject to the taille, who are assessed to the capitation at so much a-pound of what they pay to that other tax. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In 1666, the generality of Montauban was assessed to the real or predial taille, according, it is said, to a very exact survey and valuation. 亚当·斯密.国富论.