The capitation tax, or tribute paid by the natives, is the foundation of the financial system in the Philippines.
It is a natural complaint that the tribute or capitation tax presses equally on all classes of Indians, rich or poor.
In addition to the national schools supported as above, there are a considerable number of convent or monastery schools which receive capitation grants after the English plan, but not direct salaries.
The bill as a measure for elementary education was supplemented by an administrative system of capitation grants for rural areas.
They pay to government a capitationtax of seven reals.
All the Chinese pay a capitation tax of four dollars.
The interest on the literary fund, the capitation tax, and a tax on property of one mill on the dollar.
For explanation of literary fund, see page 37, and for capitation tax, see page 82.
Further evidence of the prepayment of the capitation taxes required by this Constitution, as a prerequisite to the right to register and vote, may be prescribed by law.
A capitation tax is levied on all male persons over the age of twenty-one.
It is obvious that an idiot, while under the process of education, is at least as much entitled to the capitation grant allowed by the Education Department as the school children of the non-idiotic class.
A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
He was only prevented by death from relieving his subjects altogether from the capitation tax, which he greatly diminished.
This capitation tax is slightly mentioned in the Chronicle of Edessa.
It is supported by a fund derived from a state capitation tax, levied upon all seamen sailing from this port, and is the only establishment of the kind in the United States, or, we believe, in the world.
The Taik Thugyi collected capitation tax and land and fishery revenue, the main sources of the Provincial income, and received a substantial commission on the returns.
Besides land revenue, the only tax paid by the cultivator was capitation tax.
The interest from the Literary Fund, all the capitation or poll tax, a new state property tax and a new one dollar annual tax on each male citizen twenty-one years and older were to constitute the financial support of the public school system.
A capitation or poll tax was to be levied upon each voter and half of the revenue from this tax was to be used for school purposes.
Gradually, all the capitation or poll tax money was transferred to the Literary Fund.
Local school and capitation taxes were optional with each county and public school district.
The General Assembly may also provide by general law for the exemption from payment of saidcapitation tax in special cases on account of poverty and infirmity.
The commissioners of the several counties may exempt from capitation tax in special cases, on account of poverty and infirmity, and the State and county capitation tax combined shall never exceed two dollars on the head.
The proceeds of the State and county capitation tax shall be applied to the purposes of education and the support of the poor, but in no one year shall more than twenty-five per cent thereof be appropriated to the latter purpose.
The General Assembly shall levy a capitation tax on every male inhabitant in the State over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, which shall be equal on each to the tax on property valued at three hundred dollars in cash.
The proceeds collected from State and county capitation taxes shall be applied to the purposes of education and the support of the poor in such proportions as the General Assembly may direct.
Sidenote: Application of proceeds of State and countycapitation tax.
There are the capitationfees of members of the university.
Direct Taxes No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
No capitation tax (that is, so much per head) has ever been levied by the general government.
During the colonial period and, at times, after the Revolution, Negroes paid a capitation tax.
The delinquency in real estate taxes too is much less than that in the case of capitation taxes.
Savigny, is mistaken in supposing that there was but one kind of capitation tax; there was a land tax, and a capitation tax, strictly so called.
The humane policy of his successor reduced thecapitation to seven pieces.
But, besides this, there was a directcapitation tax on all who were not possessed of landed property.
One half of the capitation tax upon white males is to be devoted to the purposes of primary education.
He proposes a territorial impost; a general capitation tax; an augmented duty upon the circulation and export of silver; and a duty upon the consumption of tobacco.
If a direct tax it was wrongfully levied because the Constitution declares that "no capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state.
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.
Capitation taxes, if it is attempted to proportion them to the fortune or revenue of each contributor, become altogether arbitrary.
Capitation taxes, so far as they are levied upon the lower ranks of people, are direct taxes upon the wages of labour, and are attended with all the inconveniencies of such taxes.
It is upon this account that, in countries where the ease, comfort, and security of the inferior ranks of people are little attended to, capitation taxes are very common.
Capitation taxes, if they are proportioned, not to the supposed fortune, but to the rank of each contributor, become altogether unequal; the degrees of fortune being frequently unequal in the same degree of rank.
The taxes which it is intended should fall indifferently upon every different species of revenue, are capitation taxes, and taxes upon consumable commodities.
In France, the capitation always produces the sum expected from it.
No capitationor other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
When assessed upon the person, it is called a poll-tax, or capitation tax, being a certain sum on every poll, or head.
The next prohibition is, "No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Senators may imagine it a capitation tax, Senators may call it a capitation tax, but no imagination and no energy of assertion can make it so.
According to lexicographers, a capitation tax is a poll tax, a tax on each individual.
The Senator from Illinois insists that this is a capitation tax, and he reads the text of the Constitution.
But it is said that the Constitution prohibits a capitation tax, “unless in proportion to the census.
Now, Sir, would any one say that a tax on the business of the mariner was a capitation tax?
The tax I propose is not a capitation tax, any more than the tax on auctioneers, or lawyers, or jugglers, or peddlers, or slaughterers of cattle is a capitation tax.
Would any one say that a tax on the business of the planter was a capitation tax?
But the Senator says it is a capitation or poll tax.
Would any one say that a tax on the business of merchants, of whom we have one hundred thousand, was a capitation tax?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: customs; duty; excise; poll; rate; tariff
