Taxes

Unready kings, burnt silos & community kitties

I'm working on integrating a microfiction story about a smuggler into the worldbuilding for my fantasy universe Verraine, so I had to do a little digging into tax codes in different cultures.

Quick Facts

• Egyptian Pharaohs taxed cooking oil, which could only legally be purchased from the Pharaoh 🙃

• The earliest tax records known were from the ancient Mesopo…