SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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1st Estate
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2nd Estate
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3rd Estate
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All taxed equally
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Detailed explanation-1: -1788. The tax system in pre-revolutionary France largely exempted the nobles and the clergy from taxes. The tax burden therefore devolved to the peasants, wage-earners, and the professional and business classes, also known as the Third Estate.
Detailed explanation-2: -All members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state. These included a direct tax, called taille, and a number of indirect taxes which were levied on articles of everyday consumption like salt or tobacco.
Detailed explanation-3: -Peasants formed the largest group within the Third Estate, more than 80 per-cent of France’s 26 million people. Peasants paid about half their income in dues to nobles, tithes to the Church, and taxes to the king’s agents.