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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/28

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Report of CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in Kinghorn
for the Year Ending 5th. April 1795 By Peter Colvile Surveyor
[Page] 87

Duty £4.10.0
10 pr. [per] Cents £0.9.0
£4.19.0

Proof of 4 Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] £2.0.0
1 Horse at 15/ [£0.15.0] £1.15.0
2 Horses at 17/6 [£0.17.6] £0.9.0
10 Pr. [Per] Cents £0.9.0 £4.19.0

I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That the foregoing Duties
amount to the Sum of Four Pounds Nineteen Shillings, Sterling and I hereby make
Oath That the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with Requesitions of the dates
foresaid and That they were charged according to their several returns to me or from
the best information Peter Colvile Surveyor

At Torryburn the 8th
day of Novr. [November] 1794 Years
Before me Charles Preston J: P. [Justice of the Peace]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 28 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/28

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, between the 5th of April 1793 until the 5th of April 1795.

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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