Break-up of Estates: Mr. J. F. Bowden on Effect of Capital Levy: While a levy on capital differed some respects from the original proposal for the taxation of war wealth, it would be a direct incentive to the break-up of estates and the further impoverishment of capital employed in agriculture, said Mr. John F. Bowden in the course of a paper he read at the opening meeting of the Devon and Cornwall branch of the Surveyors’ institution at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth. Mr. F. W. H. Pinsent, Plymouth, presided. The title of Mr. Bowden’s paper was “The Rural Problem: a Retrospect and an Outlook,” in which papers written by him on the agricultural outlook in 1916, on the break-up of estates in 1917, and on the taxation of war wealth in 1920, were reviewed. … …
[see similar: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Tuesday 26th February 1924 and Friday 29th February 1924]
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GRO0322 Hennock: Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent: 1875 – 1948