FRENCH REVOLUTION taxation reforms
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- Taxation and finance
- Sale of Church land
- Buying Church land
- Reforming
- ABOLISHED
- Indirect taxes: aidas, traites, octrois, gabelle
- The State monopoly on growing, distributing and selling tobacco
- Old direct taxes: taille, capitation, vingtiemes
- Tax farming
- Three new direct taxes
- patente: a tax on commercial profits
- contribution fonciere: no exemptions or special privileges
- contribution mobiliere: tax on movable goods
- FAILURE because a large number of officials were needed to collect the tax
- FAILURE because it was easier to avoid paying direct taxes than indirect ones
- SUCCESS benefitted the poor, no burden of taxation as it fell on the producers.
- SUCCESS No exemptions, equal
- ABOLISHED
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