6|8 APPENDIX.
The amount of Customs and Excise on Tea on an average, without deducting the heavy ~ ,
, charges of collection and management, is, per Annum, about - '-p 7. " ' A - /
", Proposed that’each house, charged with the Window tax, be also charged as followeth, p8r Anri.
Houses under 7 Windows each.
,,j.„ .y-to-jo-ditto,----J
11. d itto . v * “
* T J i a lb 13 .aijtloj
14 to 19. ditto! , —
S ome of these might be rated much higher»! 2Q and UpWards .
and produce £ . 100,060 more- J
England and Wales
f L * 11 Scotland. I
. ,2,861296. * * at\.*3aIJ3$8
.211,483. ..Tj^--rr=kl
- 38»324 - 21 ---
25*919 .31 6
67,652 , , H T '
- 52,4°'3..
-.4682,077-îKouses £ i .
-~«7.734J
169,1^6''
: ><$42306 9
onan'7Z6^ Z
rerage j*
Houses 699,81 £■ 735.342
M M B B i M H h m
| | | 6oOjOob p e r Annjim.) „ |.
S B «M lA e cl^irges o f ® M % ? ^ - per An n um ' - - • > 1 - « f e S
Tag-on tea gardens,"taverns, coffee-houses, and mus, in Engiana - ^ .. ,
1 Tax in Ireland, West Indies, Sec. ' - “ " ~ ■ : |H H |
Tax on Tea dealers, as at present - .... -
" The above account o f houses taxed,is th e number of houses 'inhabited and charged with the Window
1ax, as per list published by the Exchequer,
*5 AccOT^iSgto^ltr.'Pnce‘,s’iccom3 , th e« are five persons to a house, or 5,000,000 in England and Wales,
i»:, 'Jr Houses hi England and Wales would be taxed, containing 5 persons y ^ IOi3gj persons.
317,9z3 ^ H o u s e s^ d cottages, ditto and ditto, untaxed, ditto 1 ,5 * 9 .6 1 $ dltto- ’ .
1,000,000 Houses and cottages, confining, about 5,000, c
■ ■ ■ K pa rse s, beside smumis, in England and Wales, according to the Rev. Mr. Howlett’s
Account, which is found to be right, would drink tea fe e from tax or duty.
* 682,01» ihouses taxed at 5 |th s persons each ~ 3,682,000
927,000 ditto untaxed at — ditto - ' “
1^609^000 houses in England and Wales containing - 8,687,000 persons.
.Besides soldiers in barracks, poor in country workhouses, people.who live on the water, &c.
The folloivinf Slaterfient will shew till "tèk thWe^w^ose^cms ^ ace to be taxed in lieg of
Customs and Excise.
; ■' Prices of tea at’ tffiié Company’s salés/«aitfah average of; io' fears, fi-om. j j '-j .,t" ^September, 1782
mdliEgé^dlS^int deducted, out of which;the- Company.pay the customs.,
■Bohea, Congou.. ■ , Souchong. SSiugBiw^W ial^Éd.1 s . d .
Excise on the same 1
■ paid Ijy'thpßUycrs.-.
; ÿi. .’•■'l.cMl.«« 4 z81 per lb.
f* « . ^ v JWU
fesst ru e -Blijer, Hnt
.t' lh ^ 82'.3-"'.n o Jï â s l l '6 H g H
Would. ’(W t v p Ê (.the 1
proposed Plan. - J 1 p fg |l 3 3” HUKmI 5 7”
Saved by' Consumer, .df=*tes«s6r; 4 48 l p.ê r &' / 4 g'61 per lb. ' V** t^bi, a iv t) t ■* >'*.p,erl)
A cqmnSon family consumes per Annum, at least JCfp.ofBohea
the House I B d WÊA
Tlfe farmly will save per Ahh’ilMi’liy'this plan
litto lb, Bohea
Deduct-Tax the House
The' fam uyViUs'äve per
A- middling family consumes "] ' 7'/-
per A njn s/i^ ^m ^ ^ko^bur >saved-on iJ^^^0ohgptL®
< ■ andi^i^Lglö> ^ 311# o f Singlo.
Averag
•'3 lb. Hyson
IS lb. ,—' Js’izc -.1*. ; ^.I?eq^ct.Tâx,oii ^He HQbuse
^hb^fêmïjy v^ilï saVe\by^this^plan
•Ditto 8 lb. o f Congou and1'Single*
; <and -8 ditto Hyson - ‘ ^
~k4 Deduct Tax'onithe House * --
The, family£^'lssaVe per Annum bÿ this’%iah
A common genteel family Spstio *'»':i6 lb.-Hysdh
B ' Deduct Tax on the Hö u sèH
« The family will
A genteel [family .... -. T' - 'ditto lb. Hyson
Deduct Tax on thé House
b$f$r‘e siareef
2 7 per lb,
- , ; e *w m
'or mm i s; V " — 16 —
& % i j o t #
per Annum by ‘this plan
The family will save per An'num by tM&pla&v
at. össföd. peîjTlb
at 6s. 8’d.Hper lb £ 8 ----
APPENDIX.