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After the fall of the Roman Empire, many free men
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trusted their smallholdings and surrendered themselves to the great lords landowners or feudal Lord, in exchange for his protection.
Similarly, it was customary for the sovereign granted to his subjects, and large tracts of land officials or fiefs to compensate them for civilian or military services rendered. Thus, a to the eighth century gave rise to these phenomena as the only form of servitude contract or relationship. Political power was established by land ownership and the number and fidelity of the subjects who had each lord, so many feudal lords boasted more power than the king.
To ensure the protection of the lord, the subjects should give to change many services, especially fight alongside him in frequent wars with the neighbors, and pay large incomes, generally in kind. These rents were imposed by the feudal lords, thus can be considered as taxes.
Levies or charges that were perceived by the holdings of mines, mills, furnaces, forges, forests, pastures, navigable rivers, by hunting and fishing were part of the rights and prerogatives of the king and the feudal lords who constituted manor real monopolies, with this income property.
The victims were part of the domain of the lord or sovereign. Similarly, engaging in trade or industry and have an office were duties that belonged to the feudal lord, and to carry out these activities was necessary permission or license. Which required the payment of an amount contained in the prerogatives of the crown over his subjects, and was known as royalties.
In the last step of the human hierarchy were the serfs, attached to the land, who were obliged to provide work for free, for maintenance of roads, repair of the feudal castle, the land of culture sir, tolls and income taxes of all kinds.
These settlers brought to the castle of Mr. sacks of grain, barrels of wine, jars of oil, chickens, pigs, sheep. And if they did not timely and voluntarily, the hosts of the Lord will take care to seize their products to the force.
When this kind of income, and those obtained through the sale of assets were not sufficient to meet the public and private expenditure of the king, was necessary to resort to subsidies or relief of the subjects.
Source: DGII Portal of the Dominican Republic / Education Tax
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