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Taxation

Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1731–1785Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1731

Robert Walpole Orford, 1st1731

Government / Whig Party Government

Taxation is shifted toward commodities

1785

William Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd1785

Government / Whig Party Government

Reduces the duty on tea in an attempt to reduce smuggling

Names involved

Robert Walpole Orford, 1stWilliam Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd

Provenance

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