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What is the history of taxes?
Its tax season, which got me thinking. How long have taxes been around? What is the first country to do so? Are tax collectors the second oldest profession(after prostitution of course)
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- Rudolph's OwnerLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, Zachias was a tax collector and mentioned in the Bible. So taxes date to at least Roman times. I am sure that as long as there have been governments, they've collected taxes. And Ben Franklin said that the only 2 inevitable things in life were death and taxes.
- 1 decade ago
As long as Kings have started wars they have taxed their people to pay for them. You could say conscription is a kind of tax to, because the govt essentially forced young men to join the army.
Good example of tax history can be found in the "Domesday Book" of medieval england. When the Normans came over from France to England and beat the Germanic Saxons out of power, they wrote a big book of everyone and thing in England so that they could control and tax it appropriately.
