History of taxation

'''''' (, ), is a type of taxation levied on non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law. The Quran and hadiths mention jizya without specifying its rate or amount, and the application of jizya varied in the course of Islamic history. However, scholars largely agree that early Muslim rulers adapted some of the existing systems of taxation and modified them according to Islamic religious law.

thumb|right|The England Runestones#U 241|runestone U 241 in Lingsberg, [[Uppland, Sweden, was raised by the grandchildren of Ulfríkr circa 1050 in commemoration of his twice receiving Danegeld in England.]]

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'''Mit'a''' () was a system of mandatory labor service in the Inca Empire, as well as in Spain's empire in America. ''Mit'a'' (federal work) was effectively a form of tribute to the Inca government in the form of labor, i.e. a corvée. Tax labor accounted for much of the Inca state tax revenue; beyond that, it was used for the construction of the road network, bridges, agricultural terraces, and fortifications in ancient Peru. Military service was also mandatory.

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Octroi (; , to grant, authorize; Lat. auctor) is a local tax collected on various articles brought into a district for consumption. thumb|City Coal-tax post|Coal Tax Octroi Post in London, England

excise tax levied on facial hair

tax imposed on Jews in the Roman Empire

measurement of vehicle engine power

thumb|300px|Gathering Tribute by Nicholas Roerich (1908) The poliudie () or poliudia () was the practice of gathering tribute by the rulers of Kievan Rus' from vassal East Slavic and Finnic tribes. It was similar to the "right of hospitality" as practised in the Viking lands (where it was known as veizla) and early medieval Poland (where it was known as stan).

İspençe was a land tax levied on non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire.

technique of financial management

name commonly given to the "annual right" (droit annuel), a special tax levied by the French Crown under the Ancien Régime

The Judenvermögensabgabe ("Jewish Capital Levy") was an arbitrary special tax imposed on German Jews under the Nazi dictatorship. The tax was only a part of a larger series of actions taken by the Nazis to systematically plunder Jewish assets.

an imperial tax agreed at the Diet of Worms in 1495 under Emperor Maximilian I

fiscal law of the Ming dynasty

Epidoseis () was a form of non-compulsory, non-tax financial giving in ancient Greece.

2024 riots in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Haraç (, , , ) was a land tax levied on non-Muslim subjects in the Ottoman Empire.

thumb|Schaffhausen Dicken coin from 1617. It corresponds to the Leibzoll of 24 kreuzers that Jews had to pay from 1676 onwards to stay in Schaffhausen. Coin in the collection of the [[Jewish Museum of Switzerland. ]] The Leibzoll (German: "body tax") was a special toll that Jews had to pay in most European states from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

tax practices of China in the premodern era

Tax in colonial Africa