Alcabala

Word ALCABALA
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But the most egregious part of all this government largesse, at least to the citizens of Spain, was the so-called alcabala, which was a 10 percent excise tax on the transfer of all property, including food. ❋ Glenn Beck (2010)

Property taxes, said to have increased 30 per cent, ruined farmers, and the "alcabala," or tax on commodities bought and sold, was increased until merchants went out of business, and many an industrial establishment closed its doors rather than pay the taxes. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

Here and there may be seen a little redoubt, with a battery of guns in it; but only on revolutionary occasions -- the wall, so far as defence goes, more concerning the smuggler than the soldier; and less contraband from abroad than infringement of certain regulations of home commerce -- chief of them the tax called "alcabala," corresponding to the _octroi_ of ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

To the keen and vivid representations of Viglius, who repeatedly exhibited all that was oppressive and all that was impossible in the tax, he answered simply that it was nothing more nor less than the Spanish "alcabala," and that he derived 50,000 ducats yearly from its imposition in his own city of ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

The alcabala, an excessive tax on sales, was also suppressed. ❋ Guillermo A. Sherwell (N/A)

Moreover, the 10 per cent tax on all sales -- the alcabala ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

A particularly crushing tax was the alcabala, or 10 per cent. impost on all sales. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

Further, an act abolishing the alcabala, a vexatious internal revenue tax, gave a great stimulus to freedom of commerce throughout the country. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The imposition of these taxes on the model of the _alcabala_ had been part of a scheme for sweeping away all the provincial jurisdictions and rights and forming the whole of the Netherlands into a unified state, as subservient to despotic rule as was Castile itself. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

Alva could not be made to understand why the alcabala, which was raised without difficulty in the little town of Alva, should encounter such fierce opposition in the Netherlands. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

If the Duke collected 50,000 ducats yearly from the alcabala in Alva, he could only offer him his congratulations, but could not help assuring him that the tax would prove an impossibility in the provinces. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

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