Abstract

PINTO BERNAL, JOSÉ JOAQUÍN. Taxation in Caracas, 1750-1845. From Bourbon Reforms to Mid-Century Liberalism. Front. hist. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.164-198. ISSN 2027-4688.

The purpose of this article is to study the changes and continuities of taxation in Caracas between 1750 and 1845, caused by government policy and economic activities of the city. As a result of this, it has been found that the dependence on customs revenues are not born with the republican period, because this was fundamental in the colonial period; a structure that was impossible to reconstruct between 1810 and 1822 because of the war of independence and was only resto-red by the Governments of the Republic of Colombia and Venezuela. Moreover, it's remarkable the correlation between maintaining domestic political order and the behavior of the external market, noting that the extraction of surplus during the colonial period was founded more in the maintenance of unequal trade that in transfers of money to the metropolis. A phenomenon that continued after the liberation of the city and increased due to the payment of external debt.

Keywords : Caracas; taxation; Government; War; economic history; Venezuela.

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