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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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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spelling | doaj.art-ef5a1100045d4a2b8e4b707a9857b8592023-12-06T16:15:03ZspaCasa de VelázquezMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez0076-230X2173-13062015-05-0145117919710.4000/mcv.6198Bajo la lupa del fiscoJuan Antonio Inarejos MuñozThis 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.http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/6198colonialismcorruptionelitesPhilippinestax administrationtaxes |
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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