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Just taxes : the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 /
Martin Daunton continues the story begun in Trusting Leviathan, offering a unique analysis of the politics of acceptance of huge tax rises after World War 1 and asks why it did not provoke the sames levels of discontent in Britain as it did on the continent.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2002
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 'A kind of tax prison': Conservatives in opposition and government, 1964-1974
- Labour 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.