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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 2 - Counties (Berwick - Fife) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/2

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Work Horse Tax
PG 36 Geo. 3
County of Dumfries
Ending 5 April
Copied 1798

£487.2.0


F326/10/1
No11

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 2 - Counties (Berwick - Fife) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/2

Volume 2 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfriesshire, Cromary, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), and Fife.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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