Which Tiberius

@@j.p.sumando56 *do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down*

@@stickman8459 lol

@@mikehawk2003 The 2nd Roman Emperor

@@j.p.sumando56 did he get his vengeance in this life or after?

You’d feel the same if you lived in England

Cries in German _Feeling pity for Belgium because they have to give more than 50% to the state_

@@quotenbalkaner7066 German taxes aren't that High If you don't make much Money.

@@omayaki5264 yes however every German must pay public health and pension insurance and even if you earn less than 1k per month you still get taxed by 20%. What are you gonna afford with 800€? The cheapest rent you can get is in problem districts with social housing around 400- 500€ . Then you have to pay groceries and due to euro inflation you pay 1,40€ for one 500gramm Butter ( 15 years before you would only pay 20-40¢). So in case you buy low end food you get onto 35€ a week which makes it 140€ a month for Groceries. Plus Water Bill, Electric Bill, Internet, Transportation and you basically have up 90% for basic needs. now imagine feeding a whole family with 1k. And then people are asking why do we get so less children.

@@quotenbalkaner7066 I agree that there is to few social housing and that the wages are too low. But cutting health insurance tax wouldn't really help. Because if you would get sick in the Case you yust mentioned you can simply declare bankruptcy. Imagine paying the hospital bill for your child...

Mount and blade reference???

The black knight from the Flash games!

Damn there goes my weekend

@Mr.Denton ah shit is it harvesting season already?

@Mr.Denton I am not afraid of you. I will fight. You have 6 troops fit for battle against their 42.

Boston Tea Party

Sorry mate I'm stealing that

Great Britain: No, I don't thinks so.

Well how else would they keep fighting long drawn out 18th century wars that generally didn't go anywhere and ended on draws where minor concessions would be made?

@@nick0875 just like today

Except for those guys on Sweden

The only certanties in life are death and taxes, as they say.

Still true to this day...

@@merrittanimation7721 not for an entrepreneur in Luxembourg.

And that the nobility get privileges (loopholes) to reduce their tax bill.

What country do you live in were 50% is taxed?

Step 1: Earning a quite nice wage. Step 2: Getting Taxed 50% Step 3: Paying 50% of your net income for the rent and 25% for Food, Clothing Hygiene etc Step 4: ??????? Step 5: actually no Profit because you have to pay your Student loan debt up.

@@ulyssessphoenix2745 Belgium has a 50% tax rate

@@quotenbalkaner7066 step 5: fake your death Step 6:move to tax havens

Keaos0 no it isn’t you dumbass

...asking for a friend

Same rate tax evasion happen nowadays hhahaha.

Short answer is not very often because if you did, you'd be guaranteed to get a visit from a gang of government-paid armed thugs showing up not long after

Did they go on to collect taxes without any guards around them?

Well it definitely happened. An extreme example at the end of the Medieval period would be the Earl of Northumberland who was murdered in a riot in York over a tax increase which was ordered by Henry VII to finance a quick war with France

I've heard multiple people, mostly those who lean left politically, say they are happy to pay their taxes. So things have in fact changed, somewhat.

@@seneca983 I guess the difference is that now the state actually gives to the people instead of just heavy taxation for destructive wars.

@Justinian the Great Hahaha maybe in the US but not here in Europe. They would be stupid to do so since the speed limit is 100 km/h right now! But seriously keep thinking that taxes are theft while you drive to work on well maintained roads and your trash is taken care off while you complain on the internet. Not paying taxes makes you somewhat of a third world citizen.

@@julianratering8500 Hahaha maybe that is why people in the US are saying taxation is theft because they are not spending it on the people but keeping it for themselves. People are now talking in the US about defunding, abolishing the police. Good luck collecting taxes without some kind of force.

yeah, we've got leftie bootlickers who love being wallet-r*ped by the long cock of the state

Tbf, the rest of Europe didn't had an efficient way of taxation as the one used by the romans or the muslim kingdoms.

@@Marshal_Rock Tbf that's because Robin Hood kept stealing it back

@@Pawn2e4 Made me laugh, thanks

that does not seem very wise for kings to do. What was the reason for this?? pure profit?

@@rav9066 Several reasons for it, number one being that governments as we think of them today didn’t exist. In the middle ages complex state bureaucracies (such as tax collecting) were in their infancy, so this sort of “outsourcing” solutions were fairly common. Also, medieval kings were often perpetually short on cash, particularly to raise armies to go to war; so they relied a lot on credit and other financing means. The selling of tax collecting rights meant that they had cash now instead of having to wait months and months for it.

Privatisation of tax collection?

@@charu2059 in the Middle Ages everything was "privatised", or rather private, since centralised states with all-consuming public bureacracies didn't become a thing until the early 20th century

Bureaucrats employed directly by the government would have probably been pretty greedy anyways. The society they lived in was not advanced and organized enough to keep track of all those taxes properly.

@Edward Tay Can't pay taxes if the government already owns everything.

It’s Richard III

No, he’s right. Richard II faced a major peasant’s revolt due to taxation and other grievances

​@Edward Tay Are you fucking high? Speaking as someone from Romania, that was a communist country till 1989, taxes 100% did exist, the only difference was that there was very little to tax as the government gave all the salaries (and as such took taxes out of your paycheck directly) and private property was nigh on non existent. Also there were social security retirement taxes that actually didn't pay for your retirement instead operating like a Ponzi scheme, with the current investments being used to pay current retired people, something that did no under any circumstances completely backfire when the communists fucked up our demographics too.

George Washington be like

I wonder why it stopped working in 1453...

@@romeoalvarado6226 bruhhhh.

@@romeoalvarado6226 roman empire fell in 1453

@@romeoalvarado6226 bruh

I swear, the place where it is taught the most is Greece.

@@azh698 Well Greece IS their direct successor, so it makes sense

@@azh698 Naturally, it is also studied quite a lot in Bulgaria, for obvious reasons *cue one of the most underrated and long lasting rivalries in human history not many people talk about*.

@@dragonsword2253 The question is. How much are they studied in Turkey ?

Eastern Roman Empire*

To be fair most of what medieval Europe way of ruling and bureaucracy was mostly copied by the Romans. They were ahead of their time.

maybe its because they are the Roman Empire

@@garabic8688 technically yes but are they really comparable from what the Romans were to the Byzantines?

@@joshuaarroyo7235 Is any society comparable to what it was centuries ago? By that standard, no country today should share a name with any from the past. The Eastern Roman Empire was what was left of the Roman Empire, period.

Well, they didn't have eastern in front, that's how the historians call it to distinguish it from the western part. It called itself Roman and no one had any doubt at that time that they were Romans. Except for Carolingians, they thought they were just Greeks and that they are true Romans. Also, 'Byzantines' didn't exist. That term was coined much after Roman empire finally fell in 1453. Ok, Achaea and Trebizond fell a few decades later, but we are really talking about remnants there. The fall of Constantine's new capital is the point when it fell. Or was it? Was maybe the defeat of Greek Megali Idea, their effort to restore the Roman empire in 1922 the point when the Roman empire ceased to exist completely since no one had any rightful and active claim to the Roman tradition?

Don’t forget the lack of representation for the colonies

*America screams in the background*

lol

Then the colonists tax their own poor people.

Britain is actually bankrupted by war in the colonies protecting the British colonies from the French. So they taxed the colonies

State and local taxes be like: We are coming in more ways than one

Amazon doesnt pay tax because it reinvests that profit into operations. The money that would go into federal and corporate tax instead goes to research and development (22.6B more than any other American company.) They invest in property, plants, and equipment for tax credits. (NYC could have enjoyed that) (Around 60B to-date) They also give employee stock compensation instead of cash bonuses. Some would call this "crony capitalism." But tax deductions, tax credits, and other incentives act as an important driver for organizations to then stimulate economic activity, job creation, and innovation.

@@Buggabones "But tax deductions, tax credits, and other incentives act as an important driver for organizations to then stimulate economic activity, job creation, and innovation." Ah yes, this is why amazon employees are among the best payed and most economically stable workers. /s

@@madman19931612 Depends which amazon employees. Entry level warehouse jobs with zero education and zero skills req start you off with 15$/h.. One step up become a Delivery driver. They make 60-70k a year. Thats 20-25% above that national average. Not sure what workers you are referring too. If it was such a bad job they wouldnt have such a huge work force..

@@Buggabones Investment is one thing. However, we are talking about profit after investments, and they still barely pay any. There are plenty of ways to dodge taxes, the most known and "brunt" way are of course tax havens but there are many. Setting up a secondary corporation in a tax haven that legally holds patents that the main company has to pay outrageously high costs for, in order to eat up all profits, is one way to shift profits away (though many like these are closed down, many more spring up). In Europe the "Double Irish arrangement " was for quite a while a "trick" for US Companies to avoid 1 trillion in taxiation in total.

This. The real question is how a feudal lord with maybe three literate and two numerate guys in his entire fief managed to assess the right amount of tax to be levied without either making the taxes too harsh nor too easy to dodge.

Yep. The ERE is an anomaly, not the norm. It basically was an ancient, highly wealthy and centralised state stuck in the medieval period. In terms of administration and taxation, it resembles more a modern nation than a medieval realm.

@@anderskorsback4104bc it was the roman empire

Based

I see you too are a man of culture

same

ditto

Why do Europeans like Rome Empire too much

Hi

what movie? eeeeeee

@@bv5998 Thx m8 i found it

@@bv5998 kk

Prince John: "Rrrrrrrrrrrob the poor to feed the rich, am I right?"

I don't know why but the map of Rome in 1025 is so freaking satisfying.... I wish it kept those borders forever

@@garabic8688 the best one for me is to see Rome around the Mediterranean that is ult

It should also include southern Crimea.

@@georgechristman6920 Crimea was a client state, not ipso facto of the empire

Its the second Zenith. The Byzantines, unlike many other civilizations had many good comebacks, those territories at 0:31 were made without foreign help/intervention, ublike the ottomans, who the western anti-russians powers were the breath device of the sick of Europe. The Byzantine could be personified by a guy who gets a cold for like 2 days and after is training at the gym with its big muscles

Eastern Roman Empire didn't have "feudalism" as western europe had during middle ages, the state was much more centralised.

Carlitos Aguacate someone hasn’t paid his taxes (but he thanked him)

No, David Archaeologist was namedropped, right after James Bizzenet.

@@Zoomy yes, he was. I'll edit my comment

@@carlitosaguacate861 Also, just want to say I'm glad I'm not the only one that hangs around at the credits to check that David's doing alright.

I wanna know what happened to Ozarka Flash

I know! I set the taxes!

Yeah, thanks to Emperor Basil. If only he was succeeded by Emperors who were just as strong as him.

@@zippyparakeet1074 if only....

"This is Byzantine Empire, not rent-free Empire!"

The lands of the Byzantine Empire were the most productive lands in the entire medieval Europe and the Near East, not because they were exceptionally fertile- in fact, Anatolia and the Balkans are very hilly but rather, because of their advanced taxation system and well oiled bureaucracy that they inherited from their ancient Roman past. A testament to that is their currency- the Nomisma aka the Solidus- which was introduced by Constantine the Great in the 4th century and it remained the same value i.e suffered from no inflation until at least the 12th century. That's 800 years of economic stability. The farmland was owned by the farmer instead of large estate owning nobility and the government guaranteed them a lot of rights thus ensuring that the farmers had disposable income which allowed them to spend on goods (proto consumerism) and allowed them to buy better equipment to boost farmland productivity. The Emperors also encouraged the production of cash crops such as olives, fruits and animal husbandry to ensure a diversified income and state export. The government also prudently maintained the infrastructure they had inherited from their past so, while being incapable of creating new infrastructure, they really didn't even have the need to because their ancestors had made so much of it and all they needed to do was maintain it. They maintained the old aqueducts, canals, dams and ensured the old Roman roads remained in good condition for smooth movement of silk road caravans and Byzantine troops. Their administration and bureaucracy resemble more of a modern nation state than a typical medieval kingdom meanwhile the HRE is the quintessential medieval state. The rights to taxation were sold by the king to the highest bidder and that bidder, upon acquiring them, made sure to fleece the peasantry to he can make the money he spent to get the rights to the estate. It was horrible and stifled productivity while keeping the realm decentralized. This is why it's kinda true that the HRE was neither Roman nor an Empire. As for Holy, well, nothing is holy. Meanwhile the Eastern Romans did their best to continue prudent Roman policies and preserve Roman infrastructure and systems.

I do think it's worth noting the relative value one gets out of taxes today than they did back then, though, lol.

To be fair China had a series of dynasties which complicated what the state was financing another war or another conquest.

LagiNaLangAko23 Same thing as death basically lol.

Sometime next may, it's too late to organise for this year but it's best to hit them right before the new year's taxes are collected when their reserves are at the lowest

Al-Yasa Lunat 7 now

I know this is stale but... Yoshi: *sweats*

If it's only 1 dislike, it's not their. Just His/her.

his*

None of us can.

Same here.

My dog got cataphracts. Poor old guy couldn't see a thing.

​@@CaptainAmaziiingi think you got them too

came here for this

This may surprise you, but different countries do things differently, and 3 minutes isn't long enough to explain all of them.

@@MuchWhittering Or here’s a thought......just don’t name your video “how were medieval taxes collected” if you’re gonna focus on the Empire that’s 1. Not the region people think of when you say medieval and who 2. Had a tax system unlike most of Europe or the world for that matter. And depending on the year of the Byzantine Empire you’re talking about it’s not even medieval but Late Antiquity.

You mean Roman taxes

@@tylerellis9097 completely agree. Byzantine Empire wasn't even a feudal society in the common sense.

In the days of 98% tax rates, he was actually understating it!

I think if you really look at it though, it was a Byzantine system.

Byzantine became a term synonymous with overcomplication because the Byzantine Empire's system descended from its ancient Roman past and was highly advanced. The illiterate barbarians of Western Europe found it too complex to understand and so the word became synonymous with complication. Source: I made it up.

@TheWeeaboo/videos Nah. I was very tired when I wrote that comment. When tired I make mistakes. Nothing to do with speaking English.

I assume then you never use any of the following: The police Hospitals The fire brigade Waste management Roads Street lights Schools

@@MuchWhittering Some of the tax goes towards good. But then again about 40% of tax goes towards Welfare in the UK. And the education system is horrible now. The NHS is terrible. I would rather have the American Healthcare system and pay for good treatment and not wait for like 8 hours to get seen. In fact the average person spends less on healthcare in America than they do in the UK. When you consider how much of tax goes to healthcare.

Nah my guess is South Africa

​@@BritishRepublicsnnah I think it's south America

I don't think so, you'd still have to pay the same value so you'd have to choose between your house or car or a lifetime of unpaid labour

This is why we need a national sales tax on goods and services and end the income tax.

@@attiepollard7847 You're just raising prices on goods and services if that's the case. The net effect is still the same, less purchasing power.

@@Incubator859 no we are not goods will be market base and rival companies also put their goods out on the market to undercut high price goods. Also I'm willing to have a debate about what to tax on G&S Tax. No one should be tax on what they make on income or inheritance.

@@attiepollard7847 Raising taxes on goods means you just raise the prices on goods. VAT is just one example of this and companies did raise prices to compensate for the increase in value added tax. Try living in the real world instead of projecting your lolbertarian fantasies into reality, then come back to me.

@@Incubator859 then end the income tax to offset the cost on VAT.

Depends if you are talking state or federal government. The federal government used to be tiny, and was paid mostly with tariffs. States and cities were more property and sales taxes.

Basically the same, a wealth tax rather than earning, there was a period in England where the number of windows affected your level of tax which is why lots of very old buildings in England have bricked up windows

@@danielv4180 that's interesting and rather peculiar. I'd still love a more in depth video on the matter, especially if there are weird stipulations like the one you mentioned. Also, I would be interested to see how collection was handled in less centralized areas that didn't have as prominent a bureaucracy as the Byzantines.

Nothing wrong with paying last taxes to the government. Government has to give everyone rich and poor to pay taxes or other taxes that are high.

Only in America.

in Britain the majority of taxes paid are by the wealthy. Britain actually depends on the tax receipts of the wealthy which isn't particularly comforting.

@@Joker-yw9hl I love uk history but damn I'm happy I don't live there because of those taxes.

The wealthy get their money by shaking down the poor. So the state can charge the poor money or the rich can charge the poor money and use it to pay their taxes to the state, one way or the other it's working people bearing the load.

"The bureaucracy must expand to accommodate the expanding bureaucracy"...more people to pay, while production stays roughly the same.

@@EroticOnion23 Yes, indeed! It's a rip off.

It all goes for tax and the essentials no matter how they slice it up and take it away.

We pay 13% as direct income tax, then 10% or 20% on the goods we buy, but this is a passive tax already included in the price

​@@TrueMechTechplus SS Medicare and FICA