Tax collection and income

Kagal was responsible for the collection of state taxes:

• a personal (`head') tax;
• a household tax (poor slums were exempt);
• a military tax;
• a tax for christian services (?);
• a tax on the sale of liquor.

In addition, various one-time military or special charges and the mandatory `gifts'. Kagal also collected money for its own institutions, through the sale of permits to keep an inn, collecting a tax on the sale of meat, on the slaughter of livestock. There were monetary penalties for trade without kagal's permission. Kagal's budget often ran a deficit, and the money to cover the deficit was borrowed from the Dominican or Bernardine order, at 8-15% per annum^1.16.