 A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another...  The Law Journal Reports - Page 351897Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 590 pages
...are either direct or indirect. A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes...expense of another ; such as the excise or customs. The producer or importer of a commodity is called upon to pay a tax on it, not with the intention to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes are those which arc demanded from one person in the expectation and intention...expense of another: such as the excise or customs. The producer or importer of a commodity is called upon to pay a tax on it, not with the intention to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 600 pages
...are either direct or indirect. A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes...expense of another : such as the excise or customs. The producer or importer of a commodity is called upon to pay a tax on it, not with the intention to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1857 - 610 pages
...are either direct or indirect. A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes...expense of another: such as the excise or customs. The producer or importer of a commodity is called upon to pay a tax on it, not with the intention to... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1864 - 502 pages
...enactments. "A direct tax is one which is demanded of the very person who it is desired or intended should pay it. " Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in expectation that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another, as excise and customs." —... | |
 | William Harris Johnston - 1865 - 478 pages
...demanded from the very person who, it is intended or desired, should pay it — such as the Income Tax. Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one...shall indemnify himself at the expense of another — euch as the Excise or Customs. The producer or importer of a commodity is called on to pay a tax... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...indirect ? " A direct tax," says Mr. Mill, " is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes...shall indemnify himself at the expense of another." Nearly all .taxes on consumption, therefore, are indirect ; for, though paid in the first instance... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...indirect? " A direct tax," says Mr. Mill, " is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes...shall indemnify himself at the expense of another." Nearly all taxes on consumption, therefore, are indirect ; for, though paid in the first instance by... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1875 - 624 pages
...unsatisfied. CHAPTER OF DIRECT TAXEB. § 1. TAXES are either direct or indirect. A direct tax is one which is Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that ho shall mdeninify himself at the expense of another : snch as the excise or customs. The producer... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Economics - 1876 - 286 pages
...indirect taxation. " A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended 6r desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes are those which...expense of another : such as the excise or customs." (Principles of Pol. E. Vol. II. p. 404.) The incidence of taxation is borne by the person out of whose... | |
| |
