Overview
- Attempts to rehabilitate land taxes in the growth of the English state
- Describes the distinctive response to parliamentary legislation in the three case study areas
- Challenges the judgment that the period after the Revolution is one of administrative decline for land taxes
- Highlights the remarkable consistency of tax revenue flows in early eighteenth-century London and the importance of biannual financial cycles to the fiscal process
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer’s ‘Sinews of Power’ and North and Weingast’s ‘credible commitment’ and some established works in the field particularly Ward’s ‘The English Land Tax in the Eighteenth-Century’ which is subject to a highly detailed critique. The book proposes that although this was a time of tension, with an English population divided by political and religious affiliations, unprecedented amounts of taxation were still collected. This was achieved by ceding immediate process ownership to local governors whilst arming them with clear success criteria, well-designed processes and innovative legislation targeted on a growing and commercialized economy. An important development was the state’s increasing ability to coordinate tax-gathering activities across the country. This book will be of interest to financial historians, academics, and researchers.
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About the author
Stephen Pierpoint is a former tax manager in the oil industry and tax inspector. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate affiliated to the Bartlett School, University College London. His current book is based on his Cambridge PhD thesis, but he has wide interests and has also written on the British Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643–1733
Authors: Stephen Pierpoint
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90260-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90259-3Published: 03 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07977-2Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90260-9Published: 21 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial History, Financial Accounting