Tax riot

Tax riots are a form of popular protest that was common during the Ancien Régime, the bourgeois revolutions[clarification needed], and the 19th century.

Sometimes, rebellions with anti-tax components, such as the Boston Tea Party, provoked or emerged from more general revolutionary processes.

In Spain a consumer rebellion broke out against direct taxes in the marketplace introduced by the fiscal reform of Alejandro Mon in 1845.

The abolition of this tax formed part of the progressive platform between 1845 and 1868, responding to the revolts that made clear that it was not popular.

There were waves of revolts of this sort in 1847, 1862, and 1867, in a stubborn resistance that led the Portuguese government to abandon the development of the land registry.