Cess
Cess is a British English and Hiberno-English term for a tax. It is a term formerly more particularly applied to local taxation, and was the official term used in Ireland when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; otherwise, it has been superseded by "rate".
In colonial India it was applied, with a qualifying prefix, to any taxation, such as irrigation-cess, educational-cess, and the like.[1] They are collectively referred to as "cesses" in government censuses, e.g. "land revenue and cesses".[2]
In Scotland, it refers to the property tax which was enacted in Scotland in 1665 and continued to be levied through the 18th century.
The term is a shortened form of "assess"; the spelling is due to a mistaken connection with census.[citation needed]
In the Quinn Family Histories (my Irish family), "Cess" has always meant Work. Good Work, Bad Work, Suc-cess - The result of work. Thus it ties into the origin of Taxs - Assess - the measure of work done for, or owed to the Landlord.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
- ^ CESS - Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ^ Abbottābād Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 1
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