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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 7 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/4/7

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Shop Tax

Survey of the Shop Tax
in the County of Clackmanan
from 5th April 1788 to
5th April 1789
By
James Watson Surveyor
Exd. GS [Examined General Surveyor]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 7 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/4/7

This volume contains information on who paid late 18th century shop tax in the counties of Ayrshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Midlothian, Lanarkshire, West Lothian, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, and Stirlingshire.

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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