This source is the imposition of "direct taxes, during a fixed period, and equally proportioned all over the Republic.
The Major had also supplied a copy of a petition for Reform, to be transmitted to the members of these bodies, which prayed for the suffrage, or right of voting, to be extended only to all payers of direct taxes.
I recommended the confining of the right of voting to the payers of direct taxes, until there should be time for a reformed Parliament to change the mode of taxing.
SMITH said, very early in the present session, he read, with some attention, the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of direct taxes.
He supposed the House would have gone into a system of direct taxes.
It then only remains for us to consider, whether it will be more agreeable to the people to reduce the impost in this manner, and raise the deficiency by direct taxes.
I think, also, that the people will pay more freely a duty of this nature than they will in direct taxes.
The several species of taxation may be divided into the four following: by impost; a tax on internal negotiations; direct taxes; and that now under consideration, excise.
On the other hand, too large a number will be attended with difficulties; a medium then is most eligible.
The including of them may now be referred to the object of direct taxes, and incidentally only to that of Representation.
Certainly money can only be raised by taxes of some kind or other; it must be got either by additional impositions on trade, by excise, or by direct taxes, or what is more probable, by all together.
United States: By the first recited clause, direct taxes shall be apportioned on the states.
Inasmuch as only payers of direct taxes to the amount of 2,000 francs a year were eligible as senators, the upper house represented almost exclusively the interests of wealth.
But erelong these indirect taxes proved unproductive, and recourse was had to the lasting scourge of direct taxes.
Gradually, however, the produce of the indirect taxes failed, or became inadequate to the wants of the empire, and recourse was had to direct taxes, levied chiefly on landed property and successions.
These consisted, first, in taking upon themselves a proportion of direct taxes, increased in the same ratio as their representation was increased by the concession to their slaves.
For their convenience the revenues were raised by imposts instead of direct taxes, and thus they give little or nothing in exchange for their excessive representation.
And in the early days of the Assembly, the confusion became chaos: it was impossible to enforce the payment of direct taxes; indirect taxes were destroyed by legislative decree; and bankers could not be induced to make new loans.
Sidenote: Powers of Parliament: Taxation] The primary function of Parliament was to give information to the king and to hear and grant his requests for new "subsidies" or direct taxes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct taxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
