Report of the Special Tax Commission of Maine: Appointed Under Resolve of the Legislature Approved March 8th, 1889

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Burleigh & Flynt, printers to the state, 1890 - 192 Seiten
 

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Seite 126 - That all property within the jurisdiction of this state, and any interest therein, whether belonging to inhabitants of this state or not, and whether tangible or intangible, which shall pass by will or by the intestate laws of this state...
Seite 56 - The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature acts upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive taxation.
Seite 105 - All real and personal estate liable to taxation shall be estimated and assessed by the assessors at its full and true value, as they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor.
Seite 66 - It may require, as a condition of the grant of the franchise, and also of its continued exercise, that the corporation pay a specific sum to the State each year, or month, or a specific portion of its gross receipts, or of the profits of its business, or a sum to be ascertained in any convenient mode which it may prescribe.
Seite 56 - The people of a state, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property, and as the exigencies of...
Seite 126 - ... devises or residuary legacies exceed what would be a reasonable compensation for their services, such excess shall be liable to said tax, and the surrogate's court having jurisdiction in the case shall fix such compensation.
Seite 128 - ... court, which return may be accepted by said court in the same manner as the original inventory of such estate is accepted, and if so accepted it shall be binding upon the person by whom this tax is to be paid, and upon the state.
Seite 152 - ... sum remaining unpaid, of the goods and chattels of the delinquent, within the county, and, for want thereof, to take him, and convey him to the jail of the county there to remain until he pays that sum, not exceeding thirty days. Upon the delinquent being committed to jail, the keeper thereof must keep him in close custody therein, until he is entitled to a discharge, as specified in the execution.
Seite 151 - ... next. And if any person refuses or neglects to pay the sum which he is assessed in said list, you shall distrain his goods or chattels to the value thereof, and keep the distress so taken for four days at the cost and charge of the owner ; and if he does not pay the sum so assessed within said four days, then you shall sell at public vendue such distress for payment thereof with charges; first giving forty-eight hours...
Seite 127 - ... to make an apportionment, if the case require it, of the sum to be paid into his hands by such legatees, and for such further order relative thereto as the case may require.

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