In general, a tax on consumer goods, especially foodstuffs, levied in the past with the permission of the state or sovereign in some towns in Europe, often requiring a certain amount to be paid into the poor relief fund. – In particular, it was a tax on commodities being brought into a town. The main purpose of this tax was to protect the town’s own field-citizens. A field-citizen was a native who farmed agricultural land outside the town walls but belonging to the town (peasant in a town who has all the rights of a citizen) and was thus of great importance for the local provisions (local supply) of the town. – Sometimes also said in reference to the boundaries where this tax is collected (the boundary where this tax is collected). – See excise, poor money, detz, impost, chocolate tax, ungeld, Verzehrgeld.
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