Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
HM Customs and Excise: Memoranda on turnover taxes
Catalogue reference: CUST 151
What's it about?
CUST 151
This series consists of high level memoranda on indirect taxation, in particular concerning sales and turnover taxes and VAT.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CUST 151
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Title (The name of the record)
- HM Customs and Excise: Memoranda on turnover taxes
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Date (When the record was created)
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1918-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of high level memoranda on indirect taxation, in particular concerning sales and turnover taxes and VAT.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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References to turnover tax, deposit tax and receipts tax can be found in CUST 118/74
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Customs and Excise, 1909-2005
- Board of Customs and Excise, Intelligence Branch, 1909-1909
- Board of Customs and Excise, Secretaries' Office, 1909-1909
- Board of Inland Revenue, 1849-2005
- Treasury, 1667-1667
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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2005-2012 Board of Customs and Excise
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Taxation
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Common taxation theme from a variety of sources reflecting how the state would interact with the community. Shows policy and administrative processes, meeting the PRO's acquisition policy section 2.2.1.2.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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HM Customs and Excise was formed by the merger of the Board of Customs and the Inland Revenue Board of Excise in 1909. The Secretaries' Office was the administrative and executive organisation through which the Board of Customs and Excise discharged its functions. The Intelligence Branch provided the Board of Customs and Excise with tax yield forecasts and scoped new forms of indirect taxation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15707/
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HM Customs and Excise: Memoranda on turnover taxes
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