...certain, not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. ... The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance...

...certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. "Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,...

...bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.' Now, I am supposed to be a tax "expert." I still do my own federal taxes. Yet, each year I am increasingly...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. . . . Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. " According to the third maxim, which is that of convenience, "every tax ought to be levied at the...

...certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person. If we regain that sense that taxes need to be clear and plain to every contributor, tax complexity...

...certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer,...