9 sentences with 'tax'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tax and other words derived from it.
• « Not only did they tax the wealth, crops and property of Uruk's subjects, but they also had the right to demand labour, requiring the common people (i.e. almost everyone) to work on irrigation systems, temples and other important public buildings. »
• « They gambled with tax exemptions, gifts and benefits to encourage loyalty to Egypt rather than simply threatening people with divine power or armies. »
• « Egyptian scribes recorded everything from tax records, to mercantile transactions, to sacred prayers for the dead on the walls of the tombs of kings and nobles. »
• « The creation of coins also made tax collection more efficient, strengthening ancient kingdoms and empires. »
• « This changed dramatically in 212 CE when the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to all free men and women (to facilitate tax collection). This was an important event because it extended Roman law to almost everyone in the empire. »
• « The tax collectors of the Roman state were so feared that many peasants voluntarily gave their land to wealthy landowners who promised to protect them from the tax agents. »
• « Another factor in the collapse of the western half of the Empire must be emphasised: once Rome began to lose large territories in the west, tax revenues were reduced to a fraction of what they had been. »
• « The east had long been the richest part of the empire, and because of its efficient bureaucracy and tax collection systems, much more wealth flowed into the imperial coffers in the east than in the west. »