Taxation as affecting the Agricultural Interest. 403 = 137 
Taxes on Property or Income. 
Amount falling 
on Uppfr and 
Middle Class 
Incomes generallj'. 
Sliare of Tax 
specially affecting 
Agricultural 
Incomes. 

Legacy, Succession, and Probate Duties, iii-\ 
£ 
6,000,000 
£ 
900,000 
2,100,000 
GOO, 000 
1,100,000 
825,000 
Income Tax (1) on income from capital 
3,000,000 
855,000) 
1 700 noo 
I^T 000 f 
700,000 
15,200,000 
3,315,000 
Add Local Rates, owners' share . . 
10,950,000 
6,000,000 
32,150,000 
9,315,000 
If these figures be accepted it would appear that, with the 
.videst differences in details, the common average pressure of 
his section of taxes on the 580,000,000/. which make up the 
.vhole series of incomes enjoyed by the upper and middle classes 
s 5^ per cent. These incomes spring, however, from the most 
raried and diverse sources. The ownership or the farming of 
and, the possession of house property, the interest of personal 
■vealth or capital, the business of the merchant, tradesman, or 
nanufacturer, as well as the earnings of professional and salaried 
)ersons, all help to swell the total, and between each sort of 
ncome great divergence of burden may on investigation be found 
0 exist. 
Only the first two of these series of incomes can be reckoned 
' agricultural," and upon these exclusively falls the 9,315,000/. 
ihown in the right-hand column of the Table. Now, these 
igricultural incomes together make up just 100,000,000/. ; so 
hat a burden of more than per cent., or nearly twice as 
nuch as the collective average on all sorts of income belonging 
o the middle and upper order of society, is charged on the 
agricultural class in the shape of direct taxes on property or 
ncome. 
