ABSTRACT
On his appointment, Gordon was given a free hand in all financial and budgetary matters in the Sudan, and in determining and implementing the government’s economic policy. The only decisions requiring the khedive’s approval were those over taxes: imposing, collecting, raising or diminishing them. Considering the fact that most of the Sudanese government’s revenues came from taxes, this limitation narrowed his power in some important fields, but his overall authority and policy were not impaired.
