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: Statistics and Intelligence Division: Correspondence and...
Catalogue reference: IR 64
What's it about?
IR 64
These files cover the whole range of the Statistics and Intelligence Division's work including budget estimates, liaison with the Central Statistical Office and statistical investigations relating to personal and company taxation, death duties,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- IR 64
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Inland Revenue: Statistics and Intelligence Division: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files cover the whole range of the Statistics and Intelligence Division's work including budget estimates, liaison with the Central Statistical Office and statistical investigations relating to personal and company taxation, death duties, taxation of building societies, superannuation funds, etc.
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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 up to piece number 103 and then in alphabetical sub-heading order. An index precedes the main list.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other statistics of the Board of Inland Revenue are to be found in IR 16
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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)
- 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)
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- Board of Inland Revenue, 1849-2005
- Board of Inland Revenue, Statistics and Intelligence Division, 1919-1974
- Board of Inland Revenue, Statistics Division, 1974-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 537 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 1977 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Statistics and Intelligence Division (renamed Statistics Division in 1975), which was set up in 1919, is responsible for the preparation of Budget estimates, for estimating the cost or yield of changes in taxation, for advising the Board on budgetary issues primarily of a financial character, for the general statistical work of the Department, including collaboration with the Treasury in the production of national income estimates and forecasts. Until 1963 it was responsible also for the management of the Board's library (now the responsibility of Central Division) and the provision of an information service, particularly on foreign and Commonwealth taxation, now maintained by Policy Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9402/
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Board of Inland Revenue: Statistics and Intelligence Division: Correspondence and Papers
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