Evening Mail in London, Middlesex

Taxing Land and Trade Aimed at National Debt Relief

The speaker outlines a comprehensive tax plan to raise about ten million pounds this year by taxing land rents, profits, tythes, mines, shares, houses, professions, and foreign assets. Scotland and Ireland are noted for additional yields, with careful deductions. The scheme replaces last session’s taxes, funds a loan of about 14 million, and seeks to reduce the national debt while boosting public resources and national security. The argument stresses wartime necessity, national resilience, and historic uses of taxation to support the empire.