Kwarta tax

{{Short description|Tax in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth}} {{redirect|Kwarta}} The '''kwarta''' ({{langx|lt|kvarta}}) or '''quarter tax''' was a tax in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on all incomes from crown estates in {{Lang|pl|królewszczyzna}} (crown lands). <ref>''Scepter of Judah: The Jewish Autonomy in the Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=1fGQfpMdp84C&pg=PA17 p 17]</ref> It was established in 1563.<ref>Norman Davies, ''God's Playground'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=b912JnKpYTkC&pg=PA97 p. 97]</ref>

Initially the rate was 1/4, hence the name, later 1/5. Its purpose was to maintain the Kwarta army. Later it was absorbed into the ''hiberna'' military-purpose tax.

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Category:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Category:Legal history of Poland Category:Abolished taxes Category:1563 establishments in Poland