Using the text-excerpt below, answer the following two questions using complete sentences and citations from the text.
The American Revenue Act, also called "The Sugar Act"
by
The Parliament of Great Britain, April 5, 1764
An act [law] for granting certain duties [taxes] in the British colonies and plantations in America… (An act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty’s sugar colonies in America)… for applying the product of such duties… towards the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the colonies and plantations; … and for altering [changing] several problems with exports from this kingdom… and improving and securing the trade between America and Great Britain.

Whereas it is expedient [convenient] that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue [income] of this kingdom, and for extending and securing the navigation and commerce [trade] between Great Britain and your Majesty’s dominions [colonies] in America, which, by the peace, have been so happily enlarged…


…That from and after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon sugars of the produce or manufacture of any colony or plantation in America…


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(a)
Based on the information included in the text, how would the colonies benefit from these new taxes?
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(b)
According to the text, what were these new taxes being used to pay for?