I used to work for the Inland Revenue myself, but things have changed a lot
since the 1860s when there were Schedules A to K.
According to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue's report for 1856 to 1869,
"The assessments on Quarries, Mines, Ironworks, Canals, Railways, Gasworks,
&c were transferred to Schedule D from Schedule A from 5th April 1866..."
For Schedule D (but not A) there are published lists of the the numbers of
people assessed and the amounts of their profits.
I'm researching the life of Countess Waldegrave who owned the Radstock
collieries in Somerset, and the published data suggests that her income from
the collieries placed her in the top 1,000 out of 400,000 to 500,000 people
assessed under Schedule D during the period 1866 to 1879, which seems to
suggest thet she was much richer than I initially thought. I was hoping that
I might be able to make some sort of comparison for the years before 1866,
but I'm not sure if that's going to be possible.
Keith Ramsey.
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