Unfair tax structure during the french revolution?

Answer 1

, My name is Allison Lopez and i think im sexy and butiful but people say im not. Forget them. i just want everyone to know my secret crush .................. Mikel Villanueva........... LOL he is so cute and sexy

oh i forgot look for me on facebook peace suckers:)

Answer 2

France had a half dozen major taxes. The first was a military tax, that the nobles were exempt, because they were expected to fight in the military. There were other taxes, that the nobles had to pay on their farm fields, but not on their manor houses. There were all sorts of Business Taxes, that everyone had to pay. The tax that was most hated was the salt tax. Everyone was required to buy so much salt per month. But the salt tax was different in different parts of the country. If you could smuggle salt from Provence to Normandy, you would make a fortune.

There were also all these internal tariffs inside the country. It was cheaper to import wheat from Britain to Paris, than buy wheat from Gascony and ship it to Paris.

Tax collections were unfair too. Because of the complexity, most of the tax collections were subcontracted out to Tax Farmers. The Tax Farmer guaranteed the government so much per year, and then they would go out and try to squeeze as much as they could, and keep the difference. The richest Nobles in France all owned shares in these Tax Farms.

Answer 3

You may well get standard American answers about stamp taxes and tea taxes imposed without representation; but let me tell you that the real unfairness was that for every penny paid in tax by the average colonial American, the average Englishman paid 12.

Answer 4

They thought that it was unfair because the tax was too high and the colonists were unable to afford it, they had thought the laws were unfair because England was trying to control them. the colonists wanted independence and were not going to pay the unfair tax on everything