Victorian Taxpayer and the Law - A Study in Constitutional Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Professor Chantal Stebbings is Professor of Law and Legal History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is also a General Commissioner of Income Tax. In the past she has served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Exeter, Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes, France and a Fellow of the Institute of Taxation. Klappentext This book traces the development, re-evaluation and subsequent recasting of legal safeguards regarding the imposition and administration of taxes. Zusammenfassung Under the new economic and social conditions of the nineteenth century! governments began to undermine the law safeguarding the imposition and administration of taxes. This book traces the development! re-evaluation and subsequent recasting of the safeguards! which! though diminished! proved sufficiently robust to provide an enduring protection to the taxpayer. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The establishment of the taxpayer's safeguards in English law; 2. The taxpayer's constitutional safeguards of parliament; 3. The administrative safeguard of localism; 4. Judicial safeguards; 5. The taxpayer's access to the safeguards; 6. The taxpayer, the constitution and consent.

Product details

• Authors: Chantal Stebbings, Chantal (University of Exeter) Stebbings
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521899246
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89924-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Tax Law; Cambridge Tax Law; Cambridge Tax Law Series
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law