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근대국가의 재정혁명-조세제도를 통해 본 영국과 프랑스의 재정 비교-

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2011, (24), pp.5~32
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Yoon Eun Joo 1

1서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article aims to analyze one aspect of the financial revolution, the tax reforms of the modern state. A comparative study on the taxation in England and in France shows us three points as follows:First, the pattern of tax increase was different between England and France. Tax revenues of England made explosive and steady growth since the Restoration. On the contrary, those of France continued to fluctuate throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Second, the tax reform in England should be reviewed. In spite of the abolition of tax farming and the centralization of taxation, the tax administration was far from the public finance. The notorious private interest prevailed tenaciously over the finance of England. On the other hand, France found a way to enhance the fiscal efficiency by institutionalizing the pursuit of private interests of the financiers and by ensuring the short term loan from them. Third, the different paths of the two states resulted not only from the presence of the parliament but also from the war. England, saved from the continental wars, didn’t suffer from the financial pressure that ruined the royal treasury of France and forced her to sell the offices. Thus, France couldn’t liquidate financiers who took the reins of government through the venality, while England pursued the tax reforms abolishing the tax farming and establishing the control of the tax revenue.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.