Why Did The American Colonies Not Pay The Taxes

The reason why the American colonies would not pay the taxes, tariffs and other payments to the British Empire was because they felt they should not pay to any country where they have no representation. The British parliament would then remove virtually all taxes initially imposed on the American colonies leaving only the tax on the tea imports, which was done to show that despite the fact that the British would allow Americans not to pay all taxes, they still had the ability to impose them and to assure that everyone pays them. I have to add here that in the summer of 1773, the British would create a rather smart money-generating plan. The British East India Company was given the exclusive right to trade tea to America thus becoming the monopoly and the controller of this commodity to the colonies (Hakim, 140). Yet in order not to make Americans angry, the British would somewhat reduce the duty Americans were paying for the tea to assure that it would be unprofitable for the Americans to start their own tea trading business because the tea was as cheap as never before (Wiegand, 93). The actual tea tax actually meant only political control of the Americans by the British, simply because the price of the tea would not change drastically. The tea was one of the most important commodities during the colonial times and the British believed that the Americans would live with the new tax and accept the British

The British east India Company would ship the tea to Philadelphia and New York, yet the Americans would not allow the British ships to land. In the city of Charleston, the British tea would be placed in the warehouses and not sold to the colonists but rather would be kept there till it rotted. Boston, of New England, was the only town that would allow the British ships to land, yet that certainly increased the tensions among the colonists and truly infuriated