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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.
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Board of Inland Revenue: Chief Inspector's Office and Statistics and Intelligence...
Catalogue reference: IR 16
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IR 16
Abstracts and statements of tax on land, property and income and Inhabited House Duty, etc., for the United Kingdom, compiled from returns made by Surveyors of Taxes. These are records of the Chief Inspector of Taxes' Office. Later records are of...
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IR 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Inland Revenue: Chief Inspector's Office and Statistics and Intelligence Division: Tax Abstracts and Statistics
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Date (When the record was created)
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1845-1955
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Description (What the record is about)
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Abstracts and statements of tax on land, property and income and Inhabited House Duty, etc., for the United Kingdom, compiled from returns made by Surveyors of Taxes. These are records of the Chief Inspector of Taxes' Office. Later records are of the Statistics and Intelligence Branch (later Division) dealing with surveys of personal income.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Statistics and Intelligence Division are also in IR 64
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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, 1671-1909
- Board of Customs and Excise, 1909-2005
- Board of Inland Revenue, Chief Inspector of Taxes Office, 1957-1974
- Board of Inland Revenue, Chief Inspectors Office, 1918-1957
- Board of Inland Revenue, Statistics and Intelligence Division, 1919-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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144 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 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 HM Revenue and Customs
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Income Tax Assessments (1845-1912) are as follows:
Schedule A: Income from the ownership of lands, tenements, hereditaments or heritages in the United Kingdom
Schedule B: Income from the occupation of lands, tenements, hereditaments and heritages in the United Kingdom
Schedule C: Interest, annuities, dividends and shares of annuities payable out of public revenue.
Schedule D: Profits or gains from any property, profession, trade, employment or vocation arising or accruing to any resident of the United Kingdom; profits or gains arising or accruing to any non-resident of the United Kingdom from any property etc. in the United Kingdom, and for and in respect of all interest of money, annuities and other annual profits and gains not charged by virtue of any of the other Schedules.
Schedule E: Public offices or employments of profit; annuities, pensions or stipends payable by the Crown or out of the public revenue of the United Kingdom, except annuities charged under Schedule C.
Assessed Taxes (1845-1912) are as follows:
Schedule B: Inhabited House Duty
Schedule C: Servants
Schedule D: Carriages
Schedule E: Horses for Riding
Schedule F: Other Horses and Mules
Schedule G: Dogs
Schedule H: Horse Dealers
Schedule I: Hair Powder
Schedule K: Armorial Bearings
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9354/
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Board of Inland Revenue: Chief Inspector's Office and Statistics and Intelligence Division: Tax Abstracts and Statistics
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