Bajo la lupa del fisco

This article examines the role played by the Spanish colonial tax administration in the selection of local Philippine elites during the second half of the 19th century. It analyses the economic and moral requirements for candidates seeking to run the principalías and collect the indigenous tax. It f...

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Main Author: Juan Antonio Inarejos Muñoz
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2015-05-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/6198
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description This article examines the role played by the Spanish colonial tax administration in the selection of local Philippine elites during the second half of the 19th century. It analyses the economic and moral requirements for candidates seeking to run the principalías and collect the indigenous tax. It further assesses the influence of the levying of the tax in the struggles for municipal control, and also the extent to which the corruption and rigidity of the tax system influenced the means of coopting junior local cadres.
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spellingShingle Juan Antonio Inarejos Muñoz
Bajo la lupa del fisco
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
colonialism
corruption
elites
Philippines
tax administration
taxes
title Bajo la lupa del fisco
title_full Bajo la lupa del fisco
title_fullStr Bajo la lupa del fisco
title_full_unstemmed Bajo la lupa del fisco
title_short Bajo la lupa del fisco
title_sort bajo la lupa del fisco
topic colonialism
corruption
elites
Philippines
tax administration
taxes
url http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/6198
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