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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/8

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Kirkcaldie SHOP TAX for one year Ending
5th April 1789 By Charles Robb Assessor

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1 Shop at £6.0.0 at 6/ [£0.6.0] PR. [per] £ is £0.3.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Two shillings Sterling and that upon the Twenty forth day of
November I delivered to Andrew Gullen Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above
Account Duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained My Oath that Notices were left with
the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the dates Annexed to there Respective names
that they were to be Charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them
Charles Robb Assessor

Transcriber's notes

Mr Robb's sums were wrong but summary at the end confirms amount changed fro Three Shillings to Two Shillings

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Shop tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/4/8

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

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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