The National Convention repealed a provision of the 1856 abolition-debt law that imposed a national tax on retail and wholesale sales of wine, spirits, tobacco, and related products. The act said municipal taxes already covered these goods and described the national levy as burdensome; collection was to stop from 1 January 1859. The amendment shows abolition compensation remained contested within public finance. Its framing centers the tax burden and revenue structure, not the unequal distribution of benefits between freedpeople and former enslavers.
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Why did the National Convention repeal one tax provision in 1858?
The decree cited municipal levies on the same goods and stopped the national tax.
The 1858 repeal ended every tax connected with abolition debt.
It repealed one specified tax on sales of spirits, tobacco, and related goods, not the whole debt system.