Frankfurt tax

The Frankfurter Taxe or Frankfurt Medicines Tax was a price regulation of the imperial city of Frankfurt from 1582 , which was also essential for the neighboring areas.

As an important trading city, trading in Simplica and Composita was also at home in Frankfurt. For many neighboring territories, the prices paid in Frankfurt represented an important measure of how the medicines should be calculated. For example, a request from the city of Konstanz to the council in Frankfurt from 1472, which asked about the prices for medicines. A Frankfurt medical ordinance from 1489 instructed the city doctor to monitor the pharmacies and watch out for low prices.

In 1582 the Frankfurt tax was waived. It was a list of the medicinal products customary at the time, in which the prices were fixed for them. A large number of medical or pharmacy regulations in neighboring territories, such as Hesse , related to this tax.

literature

• A. Philippe (translated by Hermann Ludwig): Geschichte der Apotheker, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden, reprint of the edition from 1858, p. 1008