The History of Tariff Administration in the United States

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Excerpt from The History of Tariff Administration in the United States: From Colonial Times to the McKinley Administrative BillTaxes are necessary for all governments, and the method of their collection has always been the problem of administrators. Let us take it for granted as long since settled that indirect taxation is the best form from an administrative standpoint. Its most frequent and productive application is now found in the taxation of imports. Import taxes, striking the goods in transit, meet them at their weakest point, the machinery of collection can be made simple and accurate in its workings, while the expense of collection may be reduced to a minimum.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.