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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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Shop tax
Survey SHOP TAX Burgh of Inverary
for the year ending 5 April 1789 by Duncan MacNuier Surveyor

I Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that an attached copy of the above was delivered to Mr. Donald
Campbell Esqr. the Collector upon the 22nd April 1789. Duncan MacNuier

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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