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INDIAN INCO ?E TAX ?1? remote dependant dominion under as moderate a taxation the ends of our seem to have as will consist with Later on these views and the temporary settlements, ye?8, were Among effected ?n the direct under the Company, so?ne under former 'following meaning mainly tors especially, m all taxes (?overnments, important imposts: universal, included collected by Government." been 'changed revenue and are known today as the There was again a tax known levied on bnggys, carts, and chariots, confined to Bombay only. 0ollections were farmed to the highest bidder and the tax was very. oppressive in amount. ? At present this tax is entirely handed over to municipalities. The group of taxes known as Pilgrim taxes coming down from remote times, consisted of a number of imposts; (?) a poll tax upon all pilgrims resorting not only to the great temples, but to many of the smaller pagodas and shrines of fame; (b) a tell on all tax upon the artisans from commuted for fees in kind received by the village the cultivators. All these were later a money tax or tess on the land provincial rates. as the wheel tax, s?y?r Deccan the col- form part of municipal revenues. In Madras, on the other hand, the term was used to designate tr?usj? duties. In the again s?y?r was divided into two branches (a) Moturpha, a tax on professions, and implements iected by village officers, and {b) the Bullooteh, all of which now duties-at bazaars, and collections from Gaya besides o[ which ?nay be $a, ytzr, duties, and othei places of Pilgrimage, the land tax were also levied mentioned the word an Arabic many ?rregular receiFts provlacial olticers from cultiva- Bengal. '? It also included town, 1 8eleoi Commitos on E?t-lndi? Afttits, 18al-S2. Vol. IV. on lievenue, p. vii. Select Committee, 18a1-?2, Vol. IV, p. xiv. Seizes Commistee, p. xv. lasting from 15 to 80 other Indian provinces.