Jamaican revenue and Samuel Adams's uncollected taxes

Did Jamaica provide more tax revenue to the Crown than the thirteen colonies combined?

The particular one-year versus five-year comparison is uncertain. The broader difficulty of collecting taxes in the mainland colonies is illustrated by Samuel Adams's failure to collect local payments.

A claim that Jamaica produced more tax revenue than the thirteen colonies prompts a distinction between remembered figures and a broader collection problem. The specific recollection, one Jamaican year exceeding five years of mainland colonial revenue, is explicitly treated as uncertain. Samuel Adams supplies a concrete example of difficulty collecting even the taxes already due. As a local tax collector, he failed to obtain payments and faced a suit from a political opponent when the locality's finances suffered. A town meeting forgave much of the debt and friends paid the balance. The example concerns failures within colonial tax collection as well as resistance to demands from Britain.