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Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500Public Finance

Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500: Public Finance [Taxes on Anglo-Gascon trade were major contributors to royal income in both England and Aquitaine. At the same time, merchants helped to move money between territories, and the commercial credit and loans they provided covered fiscal deficits, particularly with the very great costs of warfare. Yet government finances based on trade acquired any volatility in the underlying commodity markets. Revenues were inherently unstable in the short run, and in the long run they were in decline with tumbling trade levels, as well as growing political tax exemptions, evasion, and monetary instability. Over time the location of most taxation moved from the duchy back to England, as did most government borrowing. By the mid-fifteenth century the Plantagenets gained little in terms of the financial benefits from trade they had at the beginning of the fourteenth.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500Public Finance

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-34535-8
Pages
201 –274
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-34536-5_6
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[Taxes on Anglo-Gascon trade were major contributors to royal income in both England and Aquitaine. At the same time, merchants helped to move money between territories, and the commercial credit and loans they provided covered fiscal deficits, particularly with the very great costs of warfare. Yet government finances based on trade acquired any volatility in the underlying commodity markets. Revenues were inherently unstable in the short run, and in the long run they were in decline with tumbling trade levels, as well as growing political tax exemptions, evasion, and monetary instability. Over time the location of most taxation moved from the duchy back to England, as did most government borrowing. By the mid-fifteenth century the Plantagenets gained little in terms of the financial benefits from trade they had at the beginning of the fourteenth.]

Published: Feb 23, 2020

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