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dc.contributor.authorOats, L.
dc.contributor.authorSadler, Pauline
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:02:34Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:02:34Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:25:11Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationOats, Lynne and Sadler, Pauline. 2004. Political Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During The French Revolutionary War. Accounting Historians Journal 31 (1): 93-128.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7806
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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 representations by reference to primary sources and concludes that tile increases in stamp duty were part of a revenue raising exercise in which taxes on a number of luxury items were increased, including newspapers which were not at the time viewed as being necessities.

dc.publisherAcademy of Accounting Historians
dc.titlePolitical Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During The French Revolutionary War
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume31
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.monthjun
dcterms.source.startPage93
dcterms.source.endPage128
dcterms.source.titleAccounting Historians Journal
curtin.identifierEPR-966
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultySchool of Business Law
curtin.facultyCurtin Business School


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