The provincial rentas provinciales of the hull of the city of León were a type of rentas ordinarias; taxes levied on a permanent basis on a regular basis. This means that the provincial rentas were an aggregate of previously independent rentas, such as alcabalas, tercias, millones and cientos. In the case of León, in 1757, the author computes a total collection of 491,886 reales. What was the basis for this revenue? Most of it, 47.5%, was basic foodstuffs of modern society: meat, wine and brandy. Within meat, the most heavily taxed was pork, which was the most popularly consumed. On the other hand, beef, demanded by the wealthier social groups, was more protected from taxation. By individual products, wine was the most heavily taxed, with up to 33.3% of the revenue coming from the fluid product; a sum of 163,456 reais. Other events, such as fairs and markets, also provided a large part of the revenue with 116,844 reales, or 23.8% of the total. The typology of income shows the products and marketing systems that existed in the centre of the city of León and which served to increase the income of the provincial revenues, revenues which, as a whole, accounted for almost 45% of the net income of the monarchy in the 18th century.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 2. Social and economic impact of technological revolutions in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/7766/7822

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Bartolomé Bartolomé, J. M. (2009). "De la administración particular a la gestión por el común de vecinos de las rentas provinciales de la ciudad de León en el siglo XVIII", en Studia Historica, vol. 31, p. 322.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2009

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Studia Historica ©Juan Manuel Bartolomé Bartolomé

Abstract: Resource that deals with the different concepts that fed the provincial revenues, taxing shops, goods and products of the city of León

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