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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 983962" data-attributes="member: 5328">You are forgetting the context. A previous poster supposed a 10% tax on all incomes as a way of estimating the revenues of the king. The fees that you are talking about never went anywhere near the royal exchequer. the king raised revenues of this sort from his own estates, but very little of this stuff went any further than the lord of the manor.Besides which, only peasants who held land on the estate paid these dues. Landless labourers didn't pay them, not even the labour contributions. And townsfolk didn't pay them either. A peasant who held two virgates paid double, a peasant who held only half a virgate paid only half. These dues have the character of rent, not income tax.A typical family in this country pays one third of their after-tax income in either rent or interest on a mortgage. We don't count that as part of the tax take.Regards,Agback</blockquote>