Tax
Burden in the Year 1798
by Peter Lang
Translated by Brad Schwebler
The tax burden in the year
1798 set down according to the Liebling homeland book altogether as follows
(converted on the family):
From the Zehent
23 guilders, 36 x
From the Komitats tax = on fifth of the
Zehent
4 guilders, 43 x 28 guilders, 19 x
When we form the basis of a
real Zehent from our calculations, they are 12 percent of the income, ro rather
13.33 percent, when we calculate as tax. So the taxes were also for other
products such as vegetables and cattle – even the swarms of bees. Added
to these taxes of the manor and the Komitat (county) also came the taxes for the
community, church, and school. Besides that a “Ganzer Bauer” (complete
farmer?) still had 100 days of “Handrobot” (voluntary work) or 52 days of
“Zugrobot” (with a horse-drawn cart) and the poorest 6 days voluntary work
achieved in the year. The work converted into money resulted in 9 x per
day for the “complete farmers”, 15 guilders and 36 kreuzer, for the poorest
54 kreuzer.
[Published at
DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr, 2005]