Domestic Opium Main Tax

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Add-on Tax Receipt of 18 sheets bundled in one lot

Issued  to an opium dealer Yi Hsin Ho for its domestic opium shipment weighed 10,000 taels, by Yunnan Add-on Tax General Bureau, in Kuang Hsu 33 year (1907)

Accordingly, in addition to the base tax rate, every 100 tael of opium was charged for an additional 0.6 tael of silver as an increase of the main tax.    

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