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
Board of Inland Revenue and successor: Stamps and Taxes Division and successors:...
Catalogue reference: IR 40
What's it about?
IR 40
Files of the Stamps and Taxes Division of the Secretaries' Office of the Board of Inland Revenue concerned with the general oversight of Inland Revenue taxes, and with questions of taxation policy. In the main they relate to the tax affairs of...
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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IR 40
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Inland Revenue and successor: Stamps and Taxes Division and successors: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1804-2009
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Stamps and Taxes Division of the Secretaries' Office of the Board of Inland Revenue concerned with the general oversight of Inland Revenue taxes, and with questions of taxation policy. In the main they relate to the tax affairs of individuals and businesses and deal with general points raised by individuals, professional and representative bodies and contain correspondence on such matters between the Board of Inland Revenue and central government.
Files from 1833 to 1849 are those of the Board of Stamps and Taxes, and there are also a few earlier papers of the Board of Stamps and the Board of Taxes.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files are arranged in chronological order (except for IR 40/1961 to IR 40/2045) under the references and headings given them by the department.
File prefix letters are as follows:
C - Compensation; EPD - Excess Profits Duty; EPT - Excess Profits Tax; LV - Land Values; NDC - National Defence Contribution; PS - Private Secretary's Office; R - Property Tax, Income Tax and Stamp Duty between 1843-1880; RV - Rating and Valuation; S - Stamp Duty; T - Income Tax and Surtax; V - Valuation
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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 Inland Revenue, 1849-2005
- Board of Inland Revenue, Policy Division, 1975-1988
- Board of Inland Revenue, Stamps and Taxes Division, 1973-1975
- Board of Inland Revenue, Technical Division, 1975-1988
- Board of Stamps, 1694-1834
- Board of Stamps and Taxes, 1834-1849
- HM Revenue and Customs, 2005-2005
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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20137 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 1976 Board of Inland Revenue
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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
- Government finances
- 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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The Stamps and Taxes Division (re-organised into Policy and Technical Divisions in 1975) of the Secretary's Office of the Board of Inland Revenue is concerned with questions of taxation policy and general oversight of the direct taxes, and gives advice on more complex cases.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9378/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Records of the Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue
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Board of Inland Revenue and successor: Stamps and Taxes Division and successors: Registered Files
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