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In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. The now famous words by Benjamin Franklin, quoted in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in 1789, touched on two of humanity's biggest heartaches: dying and having to fork over your hard-earned money to SARS. But taxation is nothing new, so any possible argument we can muster against paying our dues has been made for thousands of years.
Human bondage however remained the most lucrative form of tax for both Greece and Rome. Political taxes were soon coining it for governments of the day, so the religious institutions quickly jumped on the bandwagon by implementing a ‘tithe’, or a tenth of what the faithful produced, usually paid to the Church in kind. Islam eventually introduced the ‘Islamic Tax’, the khums, or ‘one twentieth’, which was far better than the tenth of the Christians at the time.
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