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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
Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA): Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty Policy...
Catalogue reference: DVLA 7
What's it about?
DVLA 7
This series contains records relating to the setting up of legislation on Phase 2 of the Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty.
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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DVLA 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA): Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty Policy Team: Registered Files (GVPT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1998-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the setting up of legislation on Phase 2 of the Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged in former reference order within accessions
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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GVPT
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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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- Department of Transport, Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty Team (GVPT), 1999-2001
- Department of Transport, Vehicle Registration, Licensing and Taxation (VRLT), 1998-2024
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, 1990-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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22 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2025 Department for Transport
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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
- Road Transport
- Taxation
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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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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Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) was introduced in the 1998 budget. It is a system where vehicles which produce more emissions are subject to more VED. It was introduced following the 18th Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: Transport and the Environment (Cm 2674). Policy on Graduated VED was originally handled by Vehicle Registration, Licensing and Taxation (VRLT) within the Department of Transport, but coinciding with the introduction of a second phase of Graduated VED in 1999/2000, it was handled by a separate unit, the Graduated Vehicle Excise Duty Policy Team (GVPT). GVPT ended in 2001.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19284828/
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