Assessed Taxes Act 1837
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.) C A P. LXI.
[15th July 1837]
'WHEREAS by several Acts passed respectively in the Forty-third, Forty-eighth, and Fifty-second Years of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third certain Duties of Assessed Taxes were granted and made payable in respect of Carriages with less than Four Wheels, and by the same Acts respectively certain lower Rates of the said Duties were made payable in respect of certain inferior Descriptions of such Carriages called ‘Taxed Carts,’ provided the Owner's Christian and Surname and Place of Abode, and other Particulars in the said Acts respectively mentioned, should be painted on such Carriages in the Manner therein mentioned, in Words at full Length, each of the Letters thereof being at least One Inch in Length and of a Breadth in proportion: And whereas by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth the said Carriages called ‘Taxed Carts,’ having such Particulars so painted thereon as aforesaid, were wholly exempted from the said Duties: And whereas by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty KingWilliam the Fourth the Duties of Assessed Taxes were repealed in respect of certain other inferior Carriages with less than Four Wheels, provided such Carriages were built and constructed in the Manner specified in the said last-mentioned Act, and provided that every such Carriage shall have the Christian and Surname or Names and Places of Abode, Occupation or Calling of the Owner or Owners marked or painted thereon in Roman Characters, and in Words at Length, each of the Letters being at least One Inch in Height, and of a proper and proportionate Breadth: And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty a further Exemption was granted from the said Duties of Assessed Taxes in respect of certain other Carriages with less than Four Wheels, provided, amongst other things, that every such Carriage respectively should have the Christian Name and Surname, and Place of Abode, and Occupation or Calling of the Owner and of every Owner thereof, painted in Words at Length, and in legible and conspicuous Roman Letters or Characters, Two Inches...
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