Answer:
(i)
Tax was imposed on land, canal water, salt, trade goods and even on animals.
(ii) Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the
pastures.
(iii) The right to collect the tax was auctioned out to
contractors. These contractors tried to extract as high a tax as they could, to
recover the money they had paid to the state and earn as much profit as they
could within a year.
Later on, governments began collecting taxes directly from
the pastoralists.
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