Land Tax established

Question 1

Land Tax established:

Date

Answer 1

1692

Question 2

Land Tax established:

Summary

Answer 2

Provided for around a 1/3 of all required funds needed for the Nine Years’ War.

Yielded £1 million in its first year.

Question 3

Land Tax established:

SIgnificance

Answer 3

The landed elites were most liable to pay this tax and the efficiency with which it was collected suggests that the war had the unspoken approval of many of them.

Administrative revolution was taking place.

• Unprecedented levels of taxation meant that royal income doubled after 1688.