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Post Office: Property and Income Tax Assessments and Certificates

Catalogue reference: POST 7

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This record is about the Post Office: Property and Income Tax Assessments and Certificates dating from 1813-1891.

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Reference
POST 7
Title
Post Office: Property and Income Tax Assessments and Certificates
Date
1813-1891
Description

Schedules of annual property and income tax assessments made upon the salaries, annuities, and pensions of employees in the General Post Office in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with signed certificates of affirmation and verification by the GPO Assessors and Commissioners (senior officers in the GPO, notably from the offices of the Secretary and Receiver General).

Accounts are arranged mainly by department or section and cover: establishments in GPO headquarters in London, Edinburgh and, from 1854, Dublin, including the Postmaster General, Secretary, Accountant General, Receiver General, Solicitor, Surveyors, heads of departments such as the Inland, Money Order, Returned Letter and Circulation offices, and their inspectors, clerks, sorters, stampers and messengers; letter carriers and receivers in London, under the General Post (up to 1856), Twopenny Post (up to 1844) and London District Post (from 1844); superannuated officers; provincial establishments in England, Wales, Scotland and, from 1854, Ireland, including postmasters, sub-postmasters, clerks, letter receivers and messengers; Colonial agents and postmasters; mail guards; officers of the railway or travelling post; telegraph and engineering establishments (from 1871); and Savings Bank staff (from 1862).

Entries state the name of employee, office or position held, amount of income assessable, exempt amount of income, duty payable and rate, rebates allowed and total deducted.

From POST 7/2 onwards, volumes consist of standard, printed schedule and certificate forms. POST 7/1 contains various pasted-in summary lists and certificates, covering 1813-1818. It is divided into Domestic and West Indies taxes assessed by the Receiver General.

This series is a useful source for family historians, containing lists of staff employed in the GPO between 1843 and 1884 and in 1891, including their position and annual income.

Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.

Note
Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
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Held by
The Postal Museum
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
37 volume(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure
Subjects
Topics
Railways
Taxation
Caribbean
Pay and pensions
Ireland
Communications
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11738/

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Post Office: Property and Income Tax Assessments and Certificates

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