Tax in kind or tax-in-kind usually refers to any
taxation
A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal person, legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regiona ...
that is paid
in kind The term in kind (or in-kind) generally refers to goods, services, and transactions not involving money or not measured in monetary terms. It is a part of many spheres, mainly economics, finance, but also politics, work career, food, health and othe ...
, that is with
goods
In economics, goods are items that satisfy human wants
and provide utility, for example, to a consumer making a purchase of a satisfying product. A common distinction is made between goods which are transferable, and services, which are not tran ...
or
services
Service may refer to:
Activities
* Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
* Civil service, the body of employees of a government
* Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a p ...
rather than
money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are as ...
, including:
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fisc
Under the Merovingians and Carolingians, the fisc (from Latin ''fiscus,'' whence we derive "fiscal") applied to the royal demesne which paid taxes, entirely in kind, from which the royal household was meant to be supported, though it rarely was. ...
'', in the Frankish kingdoms of the Medieval period
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food render Food render or food rent (Old English: ''foster'') was a form of tax in kind (Old English: ''feorm'') levied in Anglo-Saxon England, consisting of essential foodstuffs provided by territories such as ''regiones'', multiple estates or hundreds to k ...
, a ''feorm'' or tax-in-kind provided through royal vills in Anglo-Saxon England
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kharaj'', instituted during the period of the Islamic Empire
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a tax on agricultural produce imposed by the Confederate States of America in 1863
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Prodnalog
Prodnalog ( rus, Продналог, p=prədnɐˈlok, from продовольственный налог, ''Prodovolstvenniy nalog''; "food tax"; , from {{Lang-uk, продовольчий податок, translit=prodovolchyi podatok, label=non ...
'', paid by private farms in Bolshevik Russia during the 1920s
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An agricultural tax in North Korea imposed in 1947 and abolished in 1966
See also
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Barter
In trade, barter (derived from ''baretor'') is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists distingu ...
References
History of taxation
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