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The Spread of Tax Resistance: The Antitax Movement in France in the 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2013

Alexis Spire
Alexis Spire*
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University Lille Nord de France
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 444 - 460
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2013 

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4. Those reactions can greatly vary according to eras and social elements as the recent works on the sociology of mobilizations show. See, for example, Repression and Mobilization, ed. Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller (Minneapolis, 2005).

5. This point of view is, for instance, developed by Musgrave, Richard A in “The Tax Revolt,” Social Science Quarterly 59 (1979): 697–703.Google Scholar

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10. I would like to thank Herrick Chapman for his suggestions and corrections; any remaining errors are my own.

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12. See the files deposited by the Ministry for the National Economy and Finances (MINEFI) in the Center of Economic and Financial Files at Savigny-the-Temple, 1A 284.

13. Report to the Ministry of Economy, 14 May 1973, CAEF 1A284/1.

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15. See the national journal of self-employed workers, L’objectif, no. 26 (November 1972).

16. Center of Archives of Economic and Financial Files (hereafter CAEF) B6 5361.

17. CAEF 1A284/1.

18. CAEF B51 974.

19. CAEF 1A 332.

20. CAEF B51 976.

21. Inspection général des Finances, Les réactions du public face au contrôle fiscal en 1977, CAEF B 51 979.

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35. “When Men Are Nameless,” La Manche libre, 8 January 1978.

36. See his editorial entitled “Administrative terror,” Le Nouvel Économiste, 9 January 1978.

37. Le Monde, 8 April 1978.

38. “The Tax Dragoons,” Le Point, 15 December 1975, 68.

39. Television news of Antenne 2, 29 November 1976, INA archives.

40. See Le Monde, 5 November 1975.

41. The Inspection générale des services was created by the council of ministers on 13 July 1977.

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