New Taxes for Colonists

The king and the parliament, decided that the colonists have to pay taxes. After the seven year war, the empire lost a big amount of money in the army. And they also spend money in keeping british soldiers in north america. In 1764 they passed a law known as the Sugar Act. This tax was included in the goods coming to the colonies from another place. So every time colonists wanted to by something, they have to pay the cost of the object plus the tax. This money as collected by the British Government. It was supposed to be used to pay for the British Soldiers.
The sugar act of 1764 was basically applied on all imported products. It was almost necessary for the colonists to pay this taxes because not all products were able to be produced in North America. Some of this products were tea, paint, lead, glass, paper, molasses, and sugar. So then all of these products were becoming more expensive for all of the colonists, they started becoming upset. There were some colonists who weren't going to pay not even one cent to the parliament, so they found out other solutions… Smugglers became more wealthy since people preferred to give their money to them than to the Parliament. So then products were smuggled and that started another conflict with Britain.
The colonists were not in favour of the taxation since they hadn't vote for those taxes. What we mean by this is that colonists didn't had representatives in the parliament. So they couldn't vote and didn't have someone to speak or represent them. The king and the parliament ignore their position, and that was how the relationship between colonists and britains started getting tense. Most of the colonists wanted representation, but not all of them wanted to get in trouble with Britain. Some of the colonists were even in favour with Britain, and the were called Loyalists or Tories. If somehow Britain could have give the opportunity to colonists to vote, things could have turned totally different. But since they never agreed to each other, events became very unexpected.

Resources

"Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775 - 1750–1775 - Milestones - Office of the Historian." Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775 - 1750–1775 - Milestones - Office of the Historian. N.p., n.d. Web.  http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/parliamentary-taxation, 05 Dec. 2013.

"New Taxes for the Colonists." New Taxes for the Colonists. N.p., n.d. 2013.http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/07differencesdivide/New_Taxes_for.html , Web. 06 Dec.