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The Rivers Chancellery was the first Socialist-led Treasury of Wiltshire which was incumbent during the government of Thomas Shore following the Socialist election in January 3010. Patrick Rivers was appointed Chancellor with a policy agenda of increasing taxes, formalizing trade and building stronger trade connections with the Almere Socialist Republic over that of Bonitana.
Rivers' tenure as Chancellor was mostly an uneventful one, with the Socialist government failing to enact many of the left-wing reforms promised in the election. However, they were able to institute a new tax system that would be the basis for Wiltshirian taxes until Frank Eddington's reforms in 3016. The tax system, known as the personal allowance, created a form of progressive taxation and the establishment of several tax brackets. While the Conservative governments that followed would lower these taxes gradually over time, the system was still mostly unchanged and even the lower taxes were higher than had been before the Rivers' Chancellery.