[Dragaera] Vassals

[Ken Koester]

Howard Brazee wrote:

>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Peter Granzeau wrote:
>
>> I would have assumed that the title belonged to the Empire, and the  
>> tax collectors would have been appointed by the Imperial crown and  
>> render taxes to it.  Now that Vlad is Count Szurke, he collects the  
>> taxes etc.  I assume he also collects and keeps the rents (rather  
>> than having it be forwarded to the crown, too).
>
>
>
> It depends on how taxes are collected.   Traditionally the central  
> government tells the smaller government how much money it wanted.  
> How  they got the money didn't matter.
>
I would say generally that is not the case.  Governments usually levy 
taxes directly, not through other governments.  And in the case of 
feudal Europe, there wasn't much in the way of government below the 
royal level, except for towns and cities, which accounted for only a 
very small percentage of the population.

Snarkhunter