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Years: 10 - 10
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In the same year, Wang Mang institutes a "sloth tax": if landowners leave land uncultivated, city dwellers leave their houses without trees, or citizens refuse to work, there will be penalties to be paid, with textile tributes.
For those unable to pay those penalties, they will be required to labor for the state.
In addition, in 10, Wang also institutes an unprecedented tax—the income tax—at the rate of ten percent of profits, for professionals and skilled labor.
(Previously, all Chinese taxes were either head tax or property tax.)
He also institutes a state monopoly on liquor and weapons.
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