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393: 450: 20: 45:. It is unclear how the tax was collected. One possibility is that, if the master freed the slave the government would tax the master for 5% of the slaves value, while if the slave freed themselves they would be taxed. Another possibility is that the tax was for registering a slave as free, not for freeing them in the first place. Evidence dating back to the Republic suggests that the collection of the tax was likely 360:
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73:. Livy stated that the wealth garnered from the tax, which totaled around four thousand pounds of gold, was retained to exclusively be used in the event of an emergency. The 434: 372: 344: 278: 248: 221: 194: 167: 140: 491: 105:, and was removed due to the reforms of these emperors. There is no archaeological evidence for this tax in all provinces except for 515: 510: 427: 520: 69:. It is possible that this tax was instituted to compensate for the deprivation of the Roman treasury, known as the 392: 420: 38: 42: 484: 295: 46: 98: 449: 55:. By the time of the empire, collection of the tax likely was controlled by the emperor themselves. 525: 240:
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in ancient Roman literature. This indicates that the tax survived until the time of
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quickly restored it to its original level. There is no later references to the
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wrote that Caracalla increased the rate of the tax to 10%, and then Emperor
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of 209 BCE to utilize the funds to aid the war effort against
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ancient Republican Roman tax
slaves
farmed
publicani
Livy
Consul
Gnaeus Manlius
aerarium Saturni
senate
consuls
Hannibal
Cassius Dio
Macrinus
Constantine
Diocletian
Italy
Severan dynasty
Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity
ISBN
978-1-4214-2520-7
The Demography of Roman Italy: Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Society 201 BCE-14 CE
ISBN
978-1-107-00393-4
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law
ISBN
978-1-58477-142-5
Law in the Roman Provinces
ISBN
978-0-19-258239-3

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