alcabala

But the most egregious part of all this government largesse, at least to the citizens of Spain, was the so-called alcabala, which was a 10 percent excise tax on the transfer of all property, including food.

Broke Glenn Beck 2010

Property taxes, said to have increased 30 per cent, ruined farmers, and the "alcabala," or tax on commodities bought and sold, was increased until merchants went out of business, and many an industrial establishment closed its doors rather than pay the taxes.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

Here and there may be seen a little redoubt, with a battery of guns in it; but only on revolutionary occasions -- the wall, so far as defence goes, more concerning the smuggler than the soldier; and less contraband from abroad than infringement of certain regulations of home commerce -- chief of them the tax called "alcabala," corresponding to the _octroi_ of

The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mayne Reid 1850

To the keen and vivid representations of Viglius, who repeatedly exhibited all that was oppressive and all that was impossible in the tax, he answered simply that it was nothing more nor less than the Spanish "alcabala," and that he derived 50,000 ducats yearly from its imposition in his own city of

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

To the keen and vivid representations of Viglius, who repeatedly exhibited all that was oppressive and all that was impossible in the tax, he answered simply that it was nothing more nor less than the Spanish "alcabala," and that he derived 50,000 ducats yearly from its imposition in his own city of

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70 John Lothrop Motley 1845

To the keen and vivid representations of Viglius, who repeatedly exhibited all that was oppressive and all that was impossible in the tax, he answered simply that it was nothing more nor less than the Spanish "alcabala," and that he derived 50,000 ducats yearly from its imposition in his own city of

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845

To the keen and vivid representations of Viglius, who repeatedly exhibited all that was oppressive and all that was impossible in the tax, he answered simply that it was nothing more nor less than the Spanish "alcabala," and that he derived 50,000 ducats yearly from its imposition in his own city of

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

The alcabala, an excessive tax on sales, was also suppressed.

Simon Bolivar, the Liberator Guillermo A. Sherwell

Moreover, the 10 per cent tax on all sales -- the alcabala

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

The alcabala, an excessive tax on sales, was also suppressed.

Simon Bolivar the Liberator Sherwell, Guillermo A 1921