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BL
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967733
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b722103
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| Main Entry
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Daunton, M. J., (Martin J.)
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Just taxes : : the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 /\ Martin Daunton.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2002
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1 online resource (xvi, 406 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0511550022
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: 1139809784
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: 9780511550027
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: 9781107133471
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: 9781107315105
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: 9781107316089
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: 9781107317048
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: 9781107317949
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0521039797
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0521814006
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9780521039796
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9780521814003
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Taxation-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- International-- Taxation.
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Geschichte.
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Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
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Impôt-- Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
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Politics and government
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Politique fiscale-- Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
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Steuerpolitik
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Steuerpolitik.
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Taxation.
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Belastingpolitiek.
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Inkomstenbelasting.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 20th century.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Grossbritannien.
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| Dewey Classification
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336.2009410904
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| LC Classification
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HJ2619.D38 2002eb
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| NLM classification
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15.70bcl
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