Moral and fiscal advantages. The licence for alcoholic beverages (1873)
Moral and fiscal advantages. The licence for alcoholic beverages (1873)

Summary/Abstract: The introduction of taxes for the production and the merchandising of alcoholic beverages in 1867 represented an unpopular measure, lacking in efficiency. The alcohol trade, a profitable and widespread activity, needed new measures in order to become more effective, a goal pursued by the taxation system of the state. By invoking the moral and fiscal advantages that issued from the enactment of the new license necessary for every merchandiser of alcohol, the conservative government of Lascar Catargiu would also add another fiscal law to the 33.038 owners of liquor stores (1872). Unpopular and bad for business, the new measure that imposed the need to own a licence for alcoholic beverages contributed both to the increasement of the taxes owned to the state and to the significant reduction of liquor stores.

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