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Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts, 1660–1686

Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016: Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation... [This chapter explores the making of Ireland’s second-class position in the ‘mercantile system’ created by the Restoration-era Navigation Acts and the Irish Customs and Excise Acts of 1662. The role of legislator and Treasury reformer Sir George Downing is highlighted, together with the centralising administration of the 1671 English Customs Commissioners and the 1682 Irish Revenue Commissioners. By the mid-1680s, merchant compliance with the discriminatory English Navigation Code was essentially achieved with the end of revenue farming in Ireland and improved central government enforcement from London. The events are best understood as an episode in seventeenth-century state formation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts, 1660–1686

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series
Editors: Kanter, Douglas; Walsh, Patrick
Guilfoyle, James
Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016 — Jan 11, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-04308-7
Pages
19 –42
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-04309-4_2
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[This chapter explores the making of Ireland’s second-class position in the ‘mercantile system’ created by the Restoration-era Navigation Acts and the Irish Customs and Excise Acts of 1662. The role of legislator and Treasury reformer Sir George Downing is highlighted, together with the centralising administration of the 1671 English Customs Commissioners and the 1682 Irish Revenue Commissioners. By the mid-1680s, merchant compliance with the discriminatory English Navigation Code was essentially achieved with the end of revenue farming in Ireland and improved central government enforcement from London. The events are best understood as an episode in seventeenth-century state formation.]

Published: Jan 11, 2019

Keywords: Mercantile system; Navigation Acts; Tax farming; George Downing; Colonial trade

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