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Tanukhids Civil Tier 3

Fixed Land Taxation

Death and taxes are inevitable, but taxes require more attention.

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

Public order: +1 from bureaucratic reforms (all provinces)
Wealth: +5% from agricultural buildings (faction_to_region_own_unseen)

Requires
Requires Technologies	Centralised Authority

Enables
Enables Technologies	Certificates & Seals Intensive Agriculture
Enables Buildings	Wheat Farm Stables Sheep Pens

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