Question

what was the process to imposing new taxes in French?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The proposal of new taxes was given in the Estates General. Then the majority votes decided whether that law of tax is passed or not.

Answer 2

The old regime's tax system effectively excluded the nobility and the clergy from taxation while the common citizens , especially the peasants, paid excessively high direct taxes. The proposal of new taxes was given in the Estates General. Then the majority votes decided whether that law of tax is passed or not

Explanation:

The king was not allowed in France of the Old Regime to enforce taxes alone. Rather, he had to call a general assembly of the Estates which would then enact his new tax proposals. The Estates General was a political entity to which the representatives of the three states were sent. Nevertheless, the monarch could decide alone when to call this body's meeting. It was done in 1614 the last time.

Types of Tax and Tax Collection

• Some of the main reasons for French administrative and royal centralization was the need to make tax collection more effective. The size, a direct land tax on farmers and nobles, was a major source of royal revenue
• There were three types of provinces: the country of elections (“pays d’élection” ); the country of state (“pays d’état”); and the country of imposition (“pays d’élection”). The tax assessment and collection was initially entrusted to elected officials in the country of election, but later these positions were purchased.
• The farmers paid the State a land tax and 5 per cent property tax (size) in the decades leading up to the French Revolution . Everyone payed a tax on the number of people in the family (capitation), depending on the taxpayer's status.
• Additional royal and seigneurial duties may be paid on a variety of occasions: in work, in kind, or in coins. Farmers were also expected to their landlords for rent in cash and to pay a portion of their annual production as tax, as well as the use tax on the moulds, wine presses and bakeries of the noblemen.