There are some strange taxes around the world, like Italy's shadow tax but Rome's ancient urine tax must be close to the top of the strange tax list. At least they weren't taxing people who needed to pee that would have been both awkward and unhealthy. They were taxing the people who collected the urine to use commercially. Urine had many applications in those days, both cleaning clothes and dying clothes, fertilizing crops, toothpaste and other cleaning purposes and removing flesh from hides when tanning leather. If only we could introduce a urine tax today we could be paid for our sewer use instead of paying to have sewer service, okay, probably not but a girl can dream.
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