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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/6

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Abstract of the Wheel Carriage Tax within the Shire & Town
of Invs. [Inverness] from the 5th April 1788 to the 5th April 1789 by John Rose Survr. [Surveyor]
[Page] 63

Proof of the Abstract
3 Carriages with two Wheels, at £3.10.0 each -- £10.10.0
24 Carriages with four Wheels at £7.0.0 each -- £168.0.0
£178.10.0

I John Rose Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify that the above are the Number of Carriages
within the Shire of Inverness & that an Exact Duplicate of the Above Accounts deliver
ed to the Different Collectors as above Stated upon the eight Day of December last
and the same is hereby According by [letter] too
by John Rose Survr. [Surveyor] of Taxes

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Carriage tax - Volume 6 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/8/6

This volume contains information about carriage tax paid in the counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian Haddingtonshire), Fife, Forfarshire (Angus), Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Moray (Elgin and Forres), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peebles-shire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland (lordship of Zetland), Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian (Linlithgowshire), and Wigtownshire in 1788-1789.

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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