Playing card tax (impost on playing cards)

A tax on the production of playing cards that applied in many German territorial states and was later also adopted by the Reich. The use of playing cards not stamped with an official stamp was sometimes subject to harsh penalties. In contemporary decrees, moreover, a reward – “with concealment of his name,” as it says in the Hesse-Darmstadt “Verordnung, wegen der gestempelten Spielcharten” of April 11, 1771 – was promised to anyone who reported players who picked up non-taxed playing cards. – In the Federal Republic of Germany, the playing-card tax was not abolished until January 1, 1981, because of the low level of revenue.

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