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<p>[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 8171687, member: 57364"]To illustrate that this is nothing new under the sun i can show the specimen below from the city of Shafurqan under the reign of 'Ala al-din Muhammad Khwarezmshah around 1200AD.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427587[/ATTACH]</p><p>The top line on the text side shows what it was used for, it reads "Danganah" in Arab.</p><p>To enter goods into the city, merchants had to pay taxes. The rates for this were fixed by the state. However, on top on this traders also had to pay a customs fee for the processing of their goods. The Danganah fee had to be payed to the city, for official weighing and counting of the goods passing. The privilege to perform this service and set the tariffs for this was owned by some of the wealthy families in the city. Because of the corruption this led to, this tax was abolished in later years when one of the Sultans of Delhi gained control over the region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 8171687, member: 57364"]To illustrate that this is nothing new under the sun i can show the specimen below from the city of Shafurqan under the reign of 'Ala al-din Muhammad Khwarezmshah around 1200AD. [ATTACH=full]1427587[/ATTACH] The top line on the text side shows what it was used for, it reads "Danganah" in Arab. To enter goods into the city, merchants had to pay taxes. The rates for this were fixed by the state. However, on top on this traders also had to pay a customs fee for the processing of their goods. The Danganah fee had to be payed to the city, for official weighing and counting of the goods passing. The privilege to perform this service and set the tariffs for this was owned by some of the wealthy families in the city. Because of the corruption this led to, this tax was abolished in later years when one of the Sultans of Delhi gained control over the region.[/QUOTE]
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