Colonial New Jersey’s Provincial Fiscal Structure, 1709-1775: Spending Obligations, Revenue Sources, and Tax Burdens in War and in Peace

Farley Grubb

No 15-08, Working Papers from University of Delaware, Department of Economics

Abstract: The spending obligations and revenue sources of colonial New Jersey's provincial government for the years 1704 through 1775 are reconstituted using forensic accounting techniques from primary sources. Such has not been done previously for any British North American colony. These data are used to assess colonial New Jersey's provincial fiscal structure. The methods for raising revenue to meet normal peacetime and emergency wartime expenses are identified and analyzed. The provincial tax burdens imposed on New Jersey's subjects are calculated. How the British interfered with New Jersey's provincial fiscal structure is identified. What revenues and tax burdens would have been without this interference are estimated.

Keywords: balanced budgets; bills of credit; forensic accounting; land banks; paper money; zero-coupon bonds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E42 E60 H20 H60 N11 N21 N41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2015
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