Many oppressive taxes, including the Muslims Marriage Tax, were abolished.
In their father's eyes, Donald's chief sin was his conviction that the oppressive taxes and restrictive policies of Britain could no longer be borne.
He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes.
He reorganised the police force, and abolished many oppressive taxes.
A mass movement against the oppressive taxes was developing.
"Are they sorry that the pretence for new oppressive taxes, and the occasion for continuing many old taxes will be at an end?"
They were servi camerae, serfs of the state, and as such had to pay oppressive taxes.
Usually these people were on a pilgrimage to Bummer Four to pay their oppressive taxes.
Now in the throes of a devastating famine, the British levied an oppressive tax which they insisted on increasing in rate.
Throughout the 1340s, the Yuan imposed oppressive taxes on the rich landowners of the region in order to cover the cost of these natural disasters.