'File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'

Title:

'File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'

Date:

1932/1934

Description:

Abstract: The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. A particular taxation system called Istihlak(consumption) tax has been imposed by the Iraqi Government on the produce of the gardens. British Officials discuss payment of export duty on garden produce from the Shaikh of Kuwait’s gardens in Iraq, and the allegations made by the Shaikh of Kuwait against the customs authorities at Faw.The British Ambassador in Baghdad reports that because of the enforcement of the new tax law, the Iraqi Government is no longer able to make exempt from taxes the Shaikh‘s gardens' produce that has been exported from Iraq for the personal use of the Shaikh.The volume includes a copy of minutes of a conference on the Shaikh’s date gardens held in Baghdad and minutes of an interdepartmental meeting held in London in regards to the gardens issue.The Political Agent, Kuwait, asks the Shaikh of Kuwait to provide full and detailed statements showing all payments and losses resulting from the imposition of Istihlak tax by the Iraqi Government. The Shaikh in turn provides six statements (ff 194-221):Statement I. Showing the amount levied as Istihlaktax from merchants purchasing and exporting dates in 1932.Statement II. Showing the amount levied as Istihlaktax from merchants purchasing and exporting dates in 1933.Statement III. Showing the amount levied from the Shaikh as Istihlaktax and under the heading 'Customs duties' on articles exported for the Shaikh’s private consumption.Statement IV. Showing the quantities of dates which the Shaikh was obliged to surrender from his own share to the fellaheen(peasants) working in his gardens under the Istihlaktax.Statement V. Showing the losses sustained by the Shaikh as a result of the disobedience of the fellaheendue to the introduction of the Istihlaktax.Statement VI. Showing the grand total of the above lists.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 227; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 6-222; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Emir of Mohammerah
Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Hakim of Kuwait
Shaikh Khaz'al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka'bī, Emir of Mohammerah

Geographic region:

Iraq
Shatt al Arab
Al-Fāw

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000054_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000054_en
IOR/R/15/5/137
IOR/R/15/5/137

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