That tax increase could generate resentment

If you were tithable, rich or poor, you wewre require to pay the same number of pounds of tobacco to the colony. but taxes consumed higher percentage of the income of the poor. However, when vacancy occurred on vestry, the remaining members selected the replacement. Taxes were normally paid in tobacco, because cash was rare in the colony. There was no graduated income tax like where the tax rate is based on income levels and those with higher incomes pay more per dollar earned.

parish levy was roughly equal to the county levy. If you were tithable, rich or poor, you wewre require to pay the same number of pounds of tobacco to the colony. There was no graduated income tax like where the tax rate is based on income levels and those with higher incomes pay more per dollar earned. Since colonial Virginia family units with large numbers of adult slaves, had greater incomeproducing potential and also paid more taxes, rich families paid more taxes than families with few slaves... It might increase substantially if the vestry decided to build new church, however.

There was no graduated income tax like where the tax rate is based on income levels and those with higher incomes pay more per dollar earned. The rich gentry decided the design and thus the costs of the new churches, and were entitled to the the best seats in the house but they paid relatively low percentage of their income compared to the average resident.. parish levy was roughly equal to the county levy. If you were tithable, rich or poor, you wewre require to pay the same number of pounds of tobacco to the colony. Tags: colony