What was the Roman Empire's tax policy?

>>2369709
>>>/tv/
don't come back

A tax collector comes to your place and tells you to give him some money, if you don't his thugs beat the shit out of you and steal what you have. He shaves a little off the top then gives the rest to the government. There's a reason tax collectors were some of the most hated people in society back then to the point where a few of Jesus parables were basically "Treat all people with kindness and respect, yes, even the tax collectors"

>>2369709
Open theft as compared to the hidden theft of today

IIRC they frequently gave a community a set rate and instructed a local authority to ensure it was acquired. Any extra cash could be kept by the collector.

Obviously this usually meant the tax man trying to squeeze people for their own profit.

>>2369709
>What was the Roman Empire's tax policy?
At what point in time? It changed a lot.

Equites were given the right to collect taxes in the provinces at some point, before the events of the bible anyways.

Anyone in the bible called a "tax collector" was really a roman middle class citizen. It helps explain why they were so thoroughly hated in the story.

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Not gonna lie, former Augustus supporter here. This is fucking hilarious watching Augustus crash and burn.. But in all seriousness we can't let this man get the legions.

>>2370129
The publicani tax-farmers were much richer than "middle class," they would have ben way above the minimum financial requirement for equites. Their employees who went out to do the actual field work would have been more middle-class, so yeah, I give you that. Their bully-boys would likely have been legionaries who would have ranged from fairly poor to quite comfortable, by rank.

>>2369709
Taxes initially were a tax of about 1% on individuals and their wealth. After conquest added more land and resources to the coffers,
Before Augustus took power, tax collectors would bid for their position and essentially pay the state before collecting taxes. The treasury paid interest on this payment. The tax collectors would usually keep a substantial amount of what they collected. While profitable, this system was corrupt to all hell and the collectors were notorious usurers.
Augustus removed this system and replaced it with a 1% tax on individual wealth and a flat poll tax. The tax code was incredibly complex and rather regressive, with the aristocracy amassing large amounts of wealth and often resisting tax payments.

>>2369714
What in the fuck are you even talking about?

>>2370244
Who knows, he seems like a hothead to me

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>>2370244
this, its getting memed to hell on /tv/ for some reason even though he said it 3 years ago