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tricesimation
tricesimation
See also: Tricesimation
English
Noun
tricesimation
- (historical, rare) A one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.
- 1995, Peter H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793, page 117
- On 25 June a fifth emergency tax was introduced to cover the increased expense. This was the Tricesimation which was the ducal answer to the estates’ Accise. For the first time the duke had a tax that both approximated to the level of economic production and above all was under his control.⁷⁷
- ⁷⁷ The Tricesimation was a one-thirtieth purchase and produce tax collected by ducal officials…. No records of the level collected survive, but around 1700 the Tricesimation brought in about 100,000fl. annually.
- 2006, Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany, page 148
- Between 1691 and 1724 cultivators were subject to the Tricesimation, a tax of one-thirtieth of grain and wine produced.
- 1995, Peter H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793, page 117
Coordinate terms
- (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part): quintation (1/5), septimation (1/7), decimation (1/10), vicesimation (1/20), centesimation (1/100)