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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/4

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Survey of the Rent Tax in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5th April 1786 to the 5th April 1787 by William Brunton Surveyor

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£20.0.0 at 4d £0.0.4] per pound is £0.6.8

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of
the foregoing Several dutys I find they amount in Whole to the Sum of Six
Shillings and Eight pence sterg. [Sterling] And that upon the 25 day of Sep [1786] I delivered to
Andrew Brown Collector of the Said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an
Exact Duplicate of the above accounts examined and Compared with the foregoing
which Contained my oath that the Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling
houses that they are liable in the Sums Set against their Several Names
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/4

This volume contains information on who paid late 18th century shop tax in the burghs of Aberdeen, Ayr, Banff, Campbeltown, Dingwall, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverness, Irvinem Jedburgh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Montrose, Perth, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, and Tain.

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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