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Saturday, 27th January 2018

How did the Roman Republic determine its budget? Fascinating answer on the AskHistorians subreddit about how taxation worked in the Roman Empire. Since the republic was almost permanently at war, and was very good at it, no taxes were levied on Roman citizens in Italy from 167 B.C. onwards.

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