The Campaign Against Over-Taxation, 1863–65: A Reappraisal

Douglas Kanter ()
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Douglas Kanter: Florida Atlantic University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016, 2019, pp 227-252 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter uses the ephemeral campaign against over-taxation, 1863–65, as a window onto the politics of Irish public finance in the mid-nineteenth century. It identifies the influences that encouraged the tax protest, analyses the organisation and geography of the agitation, and reappraises the case against post-Famine public finance in order to recover an alternative Irish fiscal policy. By demonstrating that grievances concerning taxation were subsequently incorporated into the home rule movement, it concludes that a long-forgotten campaign for tax reform had significant consequences for late Victorian and Edwardian politics.

Keywords: Over-taxation; Home rule; Anglo-Irish public finance; Tax protest; W. E. Gladstone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04309-4_9

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