Political Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During The French Revolutionary War
In 1797 the Prime Minister of Great Britain announced a substantial increase in the stamp duty on newspapers. This increase, and indeed the tax itself, has been variously represented as an attack on press freedom and an act of suppression of the working classes. This paper reconsiders these represen...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Academy of Accounting Historians
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7806 |