Direct Taxes

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6 Terms

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Vingtième

What was it? Who paid it?

  • A tax of about 5% on goods produced, it was levied by gov when extra income was needed (usually in wartime)

  • Everyone paid it - one of few taxes nobility had to pay

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2

Capitation

What was it? Who paid it?

  • A tax per person, as counted by a census

  • Everyone paid it

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3

Taille

What was it? Who paid it?

  • Land tax, major tax on all French subjects

  • The Third Estate - wealthy land owners and the peasantry

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4

Tithe

What was it? Who paid it?

  • Peasants paid about 10% of their harvests - to pay for the local clergy - often paid in grain, stored in tithe barns

  • The Third Estate paid - First and Second exempt from paying tithes

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5

Don gratuit

What was it? Who paid it?

  • Voluntary annual gift to the king

  • Paid by Church to the King - usually less than 5% of annual income

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6

Corvée royale

  • Labour tax - corvée took workers away from fields for 6-30 days oer year so they could do unpaid work, fixing roads

  • Peasants paid

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