The Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643-1733

Attempts to rehabilitate land taxes in the growth of the English state
Describes the distinctive response to parliamentary legislation in the three case study areas Challenges the judgment that the period after the Revolution is one of administrative decline for land taxesHighlights the remarkable consistency of tax revenue flows in early eighteenth-century London and the importance of biannual financial cycles to the fiscal process

Attempts to rehabilitate land taxes in the growth of the English state Describes the distinctive response to parliamentary legislation in the three case study areas Challenges the judgment that the period after the Revolution is one of administrative decline for land taxes Highlights the remarkable consistency of tax revenue flows in early eighteenth-century London and the importance of biannual financial cycles to the fiscal process

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Stephen Pierpoint is a former tax manager in the oil industry and tax inspector. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate affiliated to the Bartlett School, University College London. His current book is based on his Cambridge PhD thesis, but he has wide interests and has also written on the British Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Legislation for a New Tax on Land.- Chapter 3: Fiscal innovation and Local Response 1643-1680.- Chapter 4: After the Glorious Revolution.- Chapter 5: Four Detailed Examples of Post-Revolutionary Administrative Improvement and Resilience.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.