Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660

Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660 / by Linda T. Darling.

This study examines for the first time the finance procedures and documents of the post-classical Ottoman Empire. It provides an overview of institutional and monetary history and a detailed description of assessment and collection processes for Cizye, Avariz and Iltizam-collected taxes, the documen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darling, Linda T., 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Taxation > Turkey > History.
Tax collection > Turkey > History.
Tax administration and procedure > Turkey > History.
Economic history
Tax administration and procedure
Tax collection
Taxation
Finanzverwaltung
Steuerpolitik
Steuersystem
Belastingheffing.
Financiële administratie.
Finances publiques > Empire ottoman > 1500-1800.
Turkey > Economic conditions.
Turkey
Osmanisches Reich
Empire ottoman > Conditions économiques > Histoire.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Identification of Archival Sources
  • Introduction: The Myth of Decline
  • I. Classical Ottoman Finance. Ottoman Taxation. Revenue Assessment by Survey (Tahrir). The Monetary System and the Price Revolution. Population and Economic Change
  • II. The Ottoman Central Finance Department. Early Finance Department Organization. Reorganizations in the Finance Structure. The Seventeenth Century and Beyond
  • III. Revenue Assessment by the Central Finance Department: Cizye and Avariz. Revenue Surveying by the Finance Bureaus. Registration of Taxpayers and Population Estimation. Amounts of Money Taken in Tax
  • IV. Taxation Without Assessment? Tax Farming (Iltizam). Mukataa Revenues and Records. Bidding and Revenue Amounts. Bidders' Conditions and Personnel Recruitment. Iltizam Supervision
  • V. Tax Collection Personnel. Appointment of Revenue Collectors. The Military in Cizye and Avariz Collection. The Military in Tax Farming
  • VI. Tax Collection, Remittance, and Reporting.

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