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Taille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The taille was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. |
| | Unlike modern income taxes, the total amount of the taille was first set (after the Estates General was suspended in 1484) by the French king from year to year, and this amount was then apportioned among the various provinces for collection. |
| | The taille became a major source of royal income (roughly half in the 1570s), the most important direct tax of pre-Revolutionary France, and provided for the growing cost of warfare in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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