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Tax farming

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, tax farming means: An arrangement granting a person or group the right to collect specified taxes in return for payment to an authority.

In Turkish: iltizam, vergi toplama hakkının devri

How it is used

Tax farming concerns revenue collection, not agricultural cultivation; arrangements differed historically.

Example sentences

  1. The treasury used tax farming to obtain an agreed payment in advance.

    Collection rights are exchanged for revenue to the authority.

  2. Petitions complain about collection practices under tax farming.

    The collector's conduct can be studied separately from the contract.

Common collocations

  • tax farming contract
  • the tax farming system
  • Ottoman EmpireThe state founded in north-western Anatolia around 1300 by the dynasty of Osman, which grew into an empire across south-eastern Europe, western Asia and North Africa and lasted until 1922.
  • peasantA person who lives in the countryside and farms a small piece of land with family labour, often paying rent, taxes or labour services to a landowner or the state.

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