The Act, passed during the American Revolutionary War, was an attempt by Parliament to end the war by conceding one of the …
156–90. Get the New Statesman's Morning Call email. The Act was eventually repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 as obsolete. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites.
METROPOLITAN BLUEPRINTS OF COLONIAL TAXATION? The Caribbean became the preferred hideaway spot not only for Britain’s wealthy, but also for British wealth.
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Spending promises will be meaningless so long as the rich can dodge taxes and hide wealth offshore. 43 Cartwright, John R., Politics in Sierra Leone, 1947–67, Toronto and Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1970, pp. 35 Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg, ‘Real wages in British Africa, 1880–1940’, unpublished paper for LSE African Economic History Workshop, London, 28 April 2010. By the early twentieth century, Britain’s courts had created the legal notion of “virtual residencies”, allowing companies across the globe to become incorporated in British imperial jurisdictions but avoid paying British tax.
1–2. 54–9. As Keynesian economics drove the rebuilding of Europe, company profits were taxed at rates as high as 40 and 50 percent – levels unimaginable in today’s Britain.
This nuances the ‘extractive institutions’ hypothesis and calls for a decomposition of the term ‘extractive institutions’ as such. 37–8, cited in Kuczynski, Demographic survey: West Africa, p. 391. Full text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views. Abstract. This article surveys the variety in colonial tax systems across thirty-four dominions, colonies, and protectorates during the heyday of British imperialism (1870–1940), focusing on a comparison of colonial tax levels.
He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent and The Washington Post, and is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019). Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?’, in: Rodrik, D., ed., In search of prosperity. Today, we perceive even tame increases in corporate and high-earnings taxation, such as those proposed in Labour’s 2019 manifesto, as impossible.
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225–7. Edmund Burke, a statesman and philosopher, strongly opposed the tax and supported American independence. 2012.