Andrew Flint takes a sideways look at the month's tax news
To say that tax has a long association with revolution is something of a lazy cliché. I should know — I've used it often enough.
That doesn't mean it's not true though. From tax revolts in the Roman provinces to the modern poll tax via the Peasants' Revolt Ship Money and the Boston Tea Party so long as there is a state organised enough to impose taxes there is a natural resentment amongst those obliged to pay them. Sometimes the tension breaks into violence and it all ends in tears.
That though is not the kind of revolution I have in mind. No the new tax revolution I am attempting to start...
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Andrew Flint takes a sideways look at the month's tax news
To say that tax has a long association with revolution is something of a lazy cliché. I should know — I've used it often enough.
That doesn't mean it's not true though. From tax revolts in the Roman provinces to the modern poll tax via the Peasants' Revolt Ship Money and the Boston Tea Party so long as there is a state organised enough to impose taxes there is a natural resentment amongst those obliged to pay them. Sometimes the tension breaks into violence and it all ends in tears.
That though is not the kind of revolution I have in mind. No the new tax revolution I am attempting to start...
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