The Great Self-Taxed legislation driver number 26

driver number 26

1st September 1938

'The End of the Season'

Tenements held in lease by the Brewers' Company

Four views of Hungerford Market

The Great Self-Taxed legislation driver number 26The Great Self Taxed, 1873. The Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, makes off with a sack labelled Surplus 5,000,000. He is being heckled by a drunken representative of the working class. This cartoon refers to Mr Lowe's 1873 Budget. He started with a surplus that allowed him to cut 1d of Income Tax, reducing it to 3d in the pound. The labourer is drunk because Mr Lowe had exempted from taxation all hotel servants and all those who dealt