Publication details
Finanční stráž v roce 1918
| Title in English | Financial Guard in the Year 1918 |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Dny práva - 2008 – Days of Law |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | Financial Guard; Frontiers Guard; Revenue Control; 1918; Tariff Act from Year 1927; State Defence Guard |
| Description | The Financial Guard originated by integrating the Frontier Guard with so called the Revenue Guard into uniformed, military organized corps in the year 1843 to protect the customs frontier. The Frontier Guard watched the customs frontier, and the Revenue Guard was in charge of the supervision of the state monopolies and indirect taxation inland. However, both services imposed different requirements on their personnel. A better and higher education was needed for the inland service, a physical strength and fitness was essential on frontiers ( borders). These quite different requirements caused that the unified guards split again in two separate corps after formation of the independent Czechoslovakia between years 1919 and 1920. The reestablished Frontier Financial Guard retained its military character but the inland Revenue Control missed again this character. |