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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &C.
Measured on the threshing floors, and delivered in kind at the Govern-
ment Granaries, an allowance for cost of transport is made to tithe-payers.
For every £100 value, £8.
LICENCES AND EXCISE.
• TITHES.
One tenth of the produce of the land of
Wheat
Barley
Oats
Vetches
Rye
Favetta
Vikos .,
JTOTE.—All other tithes have been suspended or abolished, or replaced by Tithe Dues leviable
on Exportation. (See below.)
* TITHE DUES LEVIABLE O N EXPORTATION.
In. respect of:—
Aniseed ...
(a) Caroubs ...
Cotton
Linseed ...
Mavrokoko
Raisins
Silk-cocoons
Wound silk
Manufactured silk, if manufactured by other than
handloonu
••• •• *•
* SHEEP AND GOAT TAX.
2i silver piastres (34cp.) per head yearly on every sheep and 5cp. per head yearly on
every goat one year old and upwards.^
It'm.tiT,
; -oi.-. The tax on goats may be increased and that on sheep decreased by the High Commissioner
in' Council provided that no increase shall be made in the total amount receivable as calculated
upon the basis of the last preceding official returns of the numbers of sheep and goats in the
Island.
g ^ S h e e n and goats not produced by the owners at the first official enumeration and uncounted
thereat are liable to double tax.
* PIG TAX.
Hep. per head yearly on every pig over three months old.
Pigs not produced by the owners at thefirstofficial enumeration and uncounted thereat are
*able to double tax.
* VERGHI KIMAT.
4 per 1,000 on the capital value of lands, houses and other immovable property.
The above rate of 4 per 1,000 has been modified to the extent that the same shall be varied
on the completion of the valuation in any town or village so as to yield, as nearly as may be,
(piovided that any fraction of 10 paras in such rate shall be counted as 10 paras) a sum equi–
valent to the amount of the assessment prior to the coming into operation of the valuation.
E X E M P T I O N S .
Persons who under the L a w of 29 Zilbidje, 1278, would have been entitled to exemption
from tithe on olive trees planted by them may apply to the Verghi Department for exemption
from verghi on such trees until such time as the immunity from tithe thereon would have
expired if the tithe on
were still leviable.
* FEES TAKEN BY THE. LAND REGISTRATION AND
SURVEY DEPARTMENT.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE, (a)
I. Upon effecting (1) an Original registration, or (2) a registration of title by Prescription:—
AUTHOMTT.
Of a grant of
- - - 6cp. registration fee. • (see Head VII.)
Of Arazi-Mirie j Less than 10 vears occupation
The value of the land. *
Arazilevcoufe j °™?™»
of l0
*—
&
**~* { ^ClSl ? *" *** °
f
I Of a value less than $,000 piastres j
6c
P' registration fee only. *
\
( [see Head VII.)
J Of a value from 5,000 to 10,000 „ 5 piastres. •
S For each further 10,000 piastres 1 . . „
/ or part thereof up to 100,000 piastres j ° P
iastres
-
I, Of a value exceeding 100,000 ' „ 100 piastres. •
(e). Of Sirf-Mulk.
(rf). On conversion.
of Idjare-Vahide
into Idjaretein
6cp. registration fee.
#
(see Head VII.)
L a w of 9 Shaban, 1277,
L a w N a 5 of 1881 and
Order of High Commas*
sioner in Council, No.
927 of 7th March, 1923.
L A W N O .
23 of 1920.
Ottoman Regulation
8th February, 1871, and
L a w N o . 22 of 1899. sec
31.
Ottoman Regulation
10th February, 1870,
and instructions of th«
High Commissioner of
the 15th August, 1879.
Law of U
I Ervel, 1277, andTarioni
I Vizierial circulars, and
1
L a w No. 11 of 1882. see.
17.
L a w 11 of 1913, sec. 5.
Order of High Commii.
s oner dated 81 h March,
1889, published in Get.
No. 280 of the same dab
Tapou Regulations uf 7
Shaban, 1276 (1859),
Destour I., p. 209 and
L a w No. 12 of 1907.
L a w of 28 Redjeb, 1291,
(1874') Destour III., p.
449.
L a w of 2b Bamassn,
128
1
. (im\ Destonr L.
p. 245.
(a) This rate also applies to ground caroubs, if without intermixture of any other substance, and in the j
. of caroubs in a manufactured state mixed with other substance, or any substance in which caroubs ( L a w No. 22 of 1899,
constitute a component part, the charge is made in proportion to the quantity of caroubs contained in the 1* sec. 28 (2).
whole quantity of exported substance. (See alee Loetut tax and Hat tax.)
'
(b) In the case of Mevcoufe properties, e-g., Arazi Mevcoufe\ Idjani-vahide and Mussakafat and Musteghellat in Idjaretein, 6 per cent
of the fees other than registration, .goes to Gorernment and the balance to the Evcaf Department, while the whole of the registration tie
of ecpvgoe* to G o T c m m t n t