UID:
almafu_9959245606902883
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1 online resource (xvi, 406 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-13347-5
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1-139-80978-4
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1-107-31608-1
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1-107-32147-6
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1-107-31704-5
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1-107-31794-0
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1-299-39924-X
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1-107-31510-7
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0-511-55002-2
Content:
In 1914, taxation was about 10 per cent of GNP; by 1979, taxes had risen to almost half of the total national income, and contributed to the rise of Thatcher. Martin Daunton continues the story begun in Trusting Leviathan, offering an analysis of the politics of acceptance of huge tax rises after the First World War and asks why it did not provoke the same levels of discontent in Britain as it did on the continent. He further questions why acceptance gave way to hostility at the end of this period. Daunton views taxes as the central driving force for equity or efficiency. As such he provides a detailed discussion of their potential in providing revenue for the state, and their use in shaping the social structure and influencing economic growth. Just Taxes places taxation in its proper place, at the centre of modern British history.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 The taxing state: an introduction; 2 'The limits of our taxable capacity': war finance, 1914-1918; 3 'This hideous war memorial': debt and taxation, 1918-1925; The capital levy and Labour; Resisting the income tax and containing the floating debt; A levy on war wealth and the Geddes axe; Industry and the weight of taxation; Indirect taxation; Preserving the fiscal constitution; 4 'Adjusting the particular turns of the different screws': reforming the income tax, 1920-1929
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The Royal Commission on the Income Tax: reasserting the fiscal constitution; Churchill at the Treasury, 1924-1929; 5 'The great conflict of modern politics': redistribution, depression and appeasement, 1929-1939; Labour's fiscal policy; Keynes, the Treasury and taxation; Preparing for war; Taxation and distribution; 6 'The exigency of war': taxation and the Second World War, 1939-1945; 7 'The mortal blows of taxation': Labour and reconstruction, 1945-1951; Taxing profits; Capital taxation; Direct and indirect taxes; The limits of fiscal policy
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8 'A most injurious disincentive in our economic system': Conservatives and taxation, 1951-1964; 'A long, slow grind'; Indirect taxes and export incentives; Profits and the economy; Personal taxation: incentives and savings; Funding welfare and the economic regulator; Modernising the machinery of government; 9 'Modern and dynamic economic policy': Labour and taxation, 1951-1970; Redefining taxation policy, 1951-1964; Labour in office, 1964-1970; 10 Rethinking taxation policy: from an opportunity state to an enterprise society, 1964-1979
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'A kind of tax prison': Conservatives in opposition and government, 1964-1974Labour in opposition and power, 1970-1979; 11 'Highly defensible ramparts': the politics of local taxation; 12 Conclusion; Appendix: chancellors of the Exchequer and prime ministers, 1908-1983; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-03979-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81400-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550027
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