Provisions-tax was from 1674 (acc. decree 30 Dec 1679) an annual tax to "the necessity of fortresses and storehouses". The first year it was collected also in the towns, later only in the countryside. It was paid with victuals (butter, meat, fish) or money, and should acc. to a tax-decree for 1682 be paid with 1/2 daler per. "skippund tunge" (which means "skippund=185 kos", "tunge=grain") in east-Norway, in Agder and southern part of west-Norway by 1/4 daler per hide, and in the rest of the country by 1 daler (in north-Norway 1/2 daler) per full-farm. The provisions-tax was cancelled by a decree 1. Oct 1802. Also before 1674 provisions-tax was collected, but only during times of war.
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