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
Department of the Environment: Finance, Local Taxation Division (FLT and FLTG Series)...
Catalogue reference: AT 47
What's it about?
AT 47
This series contains policy and case-work files of the Finance, Local Taxation Division.The files concern local taxation, particularly rating, and relate to the rating and valuation of property, including business premises and educational...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AT 47
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of the Environment: Finance, Local Taxation Division (FLT and FLTG Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains policy and case-work files of the Finance, Local Taxation Division.
The files concern local taxation, particularly rating, and relate to the rating and valuation of property, including business premises and educational establishments under the General Rate Act of 1966, and the inter-departmental working party set up in the same year to look into ways of improving the rating system.
The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FLT series from the 90,000 series: HLG 89
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files in this series will be transferred in more than one batch and arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further files relating to local government finance will be found in: HLG 57 HLG 154
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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)
- FLT and FLTG. This is one of several series which used five digit primary numbers; these numbers originated in the Ministry of Health file registration system.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Department of the Environment, Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate, Local Taxation Division, 1971-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 206 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1995 Department of the Environment
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1973 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Case-work files dealing with boundary changes in England and Wales have not been preserved.
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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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The Finance, Local Taxation Division was responsible for rating (local government taxation) and for the supervision of local valuation panels. These responsibilities were later exercised by Local Taxation and General Division from 1978 to 1980, and by the Finance Local Government Directorate from 1980 onwards.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2565/
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