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Himyar Civil Tier 12

Tax Reforms

The tax is law. Failure to pay tax is punishable by that same law.

Although the Sassanids had coins minted, they appear to have been used for much more ceremonial purposes, and when used as economic tools they fast became devalued and mixed with older Arsacid coins. The chief means of economic mobility was therefore primarily barter. In lieu of a strong fiscal motivation, taxation was based on crop-sharing and valuation of crop yields per annum. In addition to a tax on the land, a poll tax was brought against the people themselves, who although offered the option of paying in coin, would more than likely pay instead with goods and crops. Although the taxation system brought coin to the royal coffers, it was seen as inefficient and wasteful; it couldn't take into account fluctuations in land and agricultural yield, and therefore couldn't be planned in advance. It also put a very heavy burden on the common Sassanid peasant, yet all this was initially insignificant to the Shahanshah, who saw his coffers filled with taxed gold.

Effects

Tax rate: +5% (factionwide)
Public order: +1 from bureaucratic reforms (all provinces)
Tax rate: +5% (faction_to_faction_own_unseen)

Requires
Requires Technologies	New Administrative System Systemised Laws & Taxation

Enables

Enables Buildings

Dye Factory Gem Market Jeweller Majore Field Arian Cathedral Monastic Estates Arian Sanctuary Latin Cathedral Monastic Hospice Latin Sanctuary Temple of Camulos Celtic Barrows Sacrificial Grounds Temple of Wodan Germanic Barrows Imperial Cult Basilica Basilica of Hermes Basilica of Isis Serapeum Basilica of Sol Invictus Altar of the Di Superi Manichaeist Basilica Manichaeist Library Shrine of Light Greek Cathedral Greek Monastic School Greek Sanctuary Temple of the Eternal Sky Ancestral Altar Astudan Temple of Great Fires Pirangah

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