The mode in which the Property and Income Tax of this country is levied, has created so much dissatisfaction, and is so universally acknowledged to be inequitable, that I am induced to call the attention of the Members of this Institute to the subject, with a view to arrive at some elucidation of the principles upon which direct taxation should be based: being satisfied that there is no tribunal before which the consideration of such a matter could be more properly brought, or where its peculiar features could be more thoroughly and efficiently investigated.
