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Tax History

15 December 2004 / Andrew Harper
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Tax History

 

 

 

Assessments and Adjustments

 

 

 

ANDREW HARPER researches the history of The Income Tax Adjustment Agency.

 

 

 

Tax History

 

 

 

Assessments and Adjustments

 

 

 

ANDREW HARPER researches the history of The Income Tax Adjustment Agency.

 

 

 

TAX PRACTICE DEVELOPED into a distinct discipline in the late nineteenth century largely as a reaction to the perceived exploitation of uninformed taxpayers by the bias and malpractice of Inland Revenue officials. It was not, initially, a response to rate or burden and tax work was frequently ancillary to insolvency and audit business, then the mainstay of the accountancy profession. Typical of the early specialists were men like Alfred Chapman (c.1838

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