Théorie de l’impôt

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In Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
In his Théorie de l’impôt (1760; “Theory of Taxation”) he attacked the tax farmers (financiers who purchased from the crown the right to collect indirect taxes) and proposed that they be replaced with a system of direct taxes on land and on personal income. Although the tax…
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