The governance of taxation

Notes of colonial production

Abstract

The article aims at the colonial production studied by the author in his master dissertation defended at the end of 2016. The main focus was the study of fiscal conjunctures in the Portuguese Atlantic by means of the analysis of the royal contracts awarded to the Overseas Council. The chronological cut began in the year 1720, with the centralization of the contracts in the Overseas Council and the increasing exploitation of gold, and had as its final mark the year 1807, with the end of the exclusive metropolitan. The research analyzes unpublished series of church tithes and other tithe taxes of the main colonial squares (Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais).