Explain why british believe they had the right to levy taxes on the american colonists

The attempts by Britain to tax its North American colonists led to arguments, war, the expulsion of British rule and the creation of a new nation. The origins of these attempts lay, not in a rapacious government, but in the aftermath of the Seven Years War. Britain was and attempting to both balance finances--through tax--and control the newly acquired parts of their empire, through asserting sovereignty.