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Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
D'Maris Coffman
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Description for Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFCF; KFF; KFFD1; KFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these constitutionally problematic but fiscally significant new taxes. Parliament's success at imposing on a deeply divided kingdom an extra-legal species of indirect taxation, which hitherto had been a constitutional anathema and a political impossibility, remains one of the most striking features of the period. A fresh reading of William Petty's Treatise on Taxes illustrates the development of ... Read more
This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these constitutionally problematic but fiscally significant new taxes. Parliament's success at imposing on a deeply divided kingdom an extra-legal species of indirect taxation, which hitherto had been a constitutional anathema and a political impossibility, remains one of the most striking features of the period. A fresh reading of William Petty's Treatise on Taxes illustrates the development of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349475643
SKU
V9781349475643
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About D'Maris Coffman
D'Maris Coffman is the Mary Bateson Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, UK, Director of the Centre for Financial History, and Affiliated Lecturer, History Faculty. She works on the relationship between public finance and private capital markets in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. With Dr Anne Murphy of the University of Hertfordshire, Dr Coffman co-manages the European State Finance Database and ... Read more
Reviews for Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
“This book is full of original insights and new ways of thinking about the excise tax, and the arguments, both major and subordinate, are copiously supported by citations of primary and secondary sources and also by 20 figures and tables. It is essential reading on the tax in the context of state development and fiscal engineering.” (Stephen K. Roberts, Parliamentary ... Read more