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L‘revenue tax is undoubtedly one of the vital acquainted obligatory levies within the French. Each spring, they declare their revenue to the tax authorities, typically with a degree of annoyance. But what number of know that this tax was born … to finance a struggle?
The regulation creating this new tax, carried by the unconventional Joseph Caillaux, was adopted on July 15, 1914. Long blocked by the conservatives, who denounced a “tax inquisition”, this measure was imposed in a context of accelerating worldwide tensions.
The assassination of the Archduke François-Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo and the prospect of a planetary battle have launched the resistance. Thirteen days after the adoption of the regulation, Austria-Hungary declared struggle on Serbia, marking the beginning of the P …
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