Pièce JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p31b/item172 - Note regarding taxes, 7 December 1908 (Gregorian date) - 24 Tishrîn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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A note indicating the amount of taxes considered appropriate to pertain to the municipal fund of Jerusalem as specified in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated 22 October 1908 and numbered 147
Articles
I. Entry tax to be taken from commodities to be transferred to the kaza of Jerusalem via railroad train or draught animals
Category

1. Taxes to be taken from people trading wheat, barley, flour, lentils, chickpea, sesame, broadbean, beans, lupin, millet, rice and coffee
   25 kilos to 100 kilos = 0.3 piasters
   101 kilos to 150 kilos= 1.2 piasters
   151 kilos to 200 kilos= 3 piasters
2. Taxes to be taken from people trading other commodities and hard coal, European lime, cement, tile, iron and miscellaneous stones and clays
   25 kilos to 100 kilos= 1 piasters
   101 kilos to 105 kilos= 1.2 piasters
   151 kilos to 200 kilos= 2 piasters
3. Taxes from miscellaneous vegetables, wood, coal and local lime
   25 kilos to 100 kilos= 0.1 piasters
   101 kilos to 150 kilos= 0.2 piasters
   151 kilos to 200 kilos= 1 piasters
4. Taxes from people trading soil known as gravel, ballast, basic soil, miscellaneous soil and sand
   50 kilos to 150 kilos= 0.2 piasters
   151 kilos to 250 kilos= 1 piasters
   II. Daily carriage tax of 2.5 piasters to be taken from each carriage to be run inside and outside the town
   III. Gas and spiritshouse tax
   IV. Butchers’ tax of 12 piasters to be taken from each large bovines and 6 piasters from small bovines; 2 piasters from each large sheep and goat and 1 piasters from small ones; and the gas and spiritshouse tax has been assigned to the municipality, so the said butchers’ tax has been handed over to the treasury. However, the butchery tax has been handed over to the municipality along with the gas tax; and the tax taken for the Educational Fund have been abolished. If the prior tariff of the said tax, i.e., 6 piasters from each large bovine and 3 piasters from small ones, 0.2 piasters from each large sheep and goat and 0.1 piasters from small ones, is approved, intestines of all the animals to be slaughtered shall be handed over to the municipality.
   V. Even though half of the livestock sale tax pertains to the treasury, the whole of it shall be handed over to the municipality
   Steelyard tax pertains to the waqfs in Jerusalem; however, it has been rendered optional in accordance with the decrees sent later; hence, its transfer to the municipality in Jerusalem has been avoided.
   VI. Pecuniary punishment
   VII. Contract tax
   VIII. Betterment tax to be taken benefitting from the Tanzimat
   IX. Costs of the lands to be left over after road regulations
   X. Announcement taxes
   XI. Allocations to be imposed by the local administration on stores and households in exchange for lighting and cleaning expenditures
   XII. Allocations to be imposed by the local administration on storehouses for stuff to be exhibited for sale in public spaces
   XIII. Permit for selling vinegar
   XIV. Permit from carriage drivers, an annual sum of 20 piasters from each driver
   XV. Building tax
   XVI. Permit for other games and amusements
   XVII. Revenues of labourer tax taken from the townspeople for road reparations
   XVIII. Toll taken for passing through the bridge on the Jordan river
   XIX. Abolition of the share, belonging to the Education Directorate, taken for the municipality at the rate of ten percent from the inn, store and land taxes.
   As a result of negotiation with the prominent members of merchants, it has been understood that if the above-written taxes are assigned to the Sanjak of the Jerusalem Municipality, they would be sufficient and appropriate for carrying out the business, that they would not create a burden or unjust treatment for the people and this note is hereby presented for taking due action in respect thereof. The 24th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)324 (7th of December 1908).

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