Kosher Meat Tax
The kosher meat tax was a special tax for kosher meat , like the Lichtbentsch tax , which had been in force in the crown lands since Empress Maria Theresa . This tax also applied in the Russian Empire .
history
Despite his reform efforts, Maria Theresa's son Joseph II was by no means willing to withdraw the family law , which had been introduced since his mother's time, as well as the place of residence and the kosher meat tax. The annual tax of 200,000 guilders was a safe and easy income for Joseph II.
Since the tax reform of 1844, Jews in Russia had to pay the state a tax on sabbath candles for the maintenance of the new schools in addition to the tax on kosher meat . The Riga municipality was exempt from this regulation because it invented the special tax and introduced it voluntarily. The Rigaers continued to pay for their community school themselves. The candle tax was collected from tax tenants, handed over to the local city council and distributed through them to the schools.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chaim Frank, Jews in the former Czechoslovakia ( digitized version )
- ↑ Verena Dohrn : The first educational reform for Jews in the Russian Empire in its meaning for the Jews in Livonia and Courland , in Aschkenas - Journal for the history and culture of the Jews, Verlag Walter de Gruyter 1998 ( digitized version )