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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Just taxes.
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Taxation-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
Belastingpolitiek.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- International-- Taxation.
Geschichte.
Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
Impôt-- Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
Inkomstenbelasting.
Politics and government
Politique fiscale-- Grande-Bretagne-- 20e siècle.
Steuerpolitik
Steuerpolitik.
Taxation.
Great Britain, Politics and government, 20th century.