Talk:Chinese Maritime Customs Service
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shouldn't this article note that the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, although officially under the control of the Qing dynasty, was in actuality a tax collection agency (as the article description gives) for the British Empire (I am not certain of how the distribution of revenues would work or who it would go to)? It is staffed by the British to collect taxes due to European powers in control of China. Isn't that by any standard a colonial tax collecting agent? Stevenmitchell 10:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was mainly staffed by foreigners, but it did collect taxes for the Qing Empire. It is true that this gave the foreign powers a degree of supervision over Chinese finances, which they later used to collect indemnities, but the fact the remains that the Qing empire was ultimately the recipient of the taxes collected.--Niohe 13:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
There is an excellent project on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service at Bristol University (UK) - see their website http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/customs/ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hkb (talk • contribs).
