Ramel's New Revenue Service Is Taking France All the Way Back to 1788

Ramel had to figure out a way to increase state revenue. He set up a new agency to enforce and collect taxes. Many of the guys hired to be the directorys tax collectors came from the ranks of those old ension regime tax farmers. Ramel also decided to revive all the hated excise taxes that had been right at the heart of why everyone wanted to call the estates general in the first place.