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Sometimes they must pay taxes, called octroi, even to move goods within a state.
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Further, every city had its own octroi duties, customs, ferry dues, highway and water rates.
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The driver then has to telephone the octroi agent and get this tax processed, which takes all night.
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In 1871, he was appointed as a collector of the octroi of Paris, collecting taxes on goods entering Paris.
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He also appeared for the then Bombay Municipal Corporation in matters concerning rateable value and octroi.
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Other sources of income were zakat, customs, salt tax, khums, mint, currency, jiziya, escheats, presents, octroi, tolls and tributes.
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The other is octroi, a local tax collected several times along the way, which goes mainly into the pockets of the collectors and their associates.
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- A tax on various goods brought into a town
- Octroi (O. Fr. octroyer, to grant, authorize; Lat. auctor) is a local tax collected on various articles brought into a district for consumption.
- This is a tax or cess applicable on goods, which have entered a particular city/ town.
- It is a tax charged by municipality or local body on the goods and commodities brought into town.
- A local tax imposed upon a good when it is brought into a municipality for sale or consumption. Octroi taxes were common in medieval Europe and elsewhere, but by the early 21st century were used only in Ethiopia and parts of South Asia. Octrois are strongly associated with tax farming.
