Tax Regulations on Forest Products in Ternate at the XIX Century

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10.2991/assehr.k.201230.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dutch East Indies, Tax Regulation, forest Products, Ternate, the XIX century

Abstract

Ternate was the center of international trade in the past. After being occupied by the Dutch through VOC, economic activities in Ternate were controlled by the VOC. The monopoly of economic activity in Ternate resulted in the loss of income for the kingdom. As a compensation, the Dutch East Indies government gave the king the right to collect taxes, called ngase. After VOC collapsed and left a lot of debt, Ternate fell into the hands of the Dutch East Indies government. The government carried out various ways to pay off the debt, one of which was imposing land tax and forcing cultivation system until 1870. This study aims to explain the tax regulation on forest products during the Ternate Kingdom at the end of XIX century and the influence of the Dutch East Indies on the regulation. Philological method and historical approach were used in this research. The results show the percentage of tax that had to be paid, types of taxed forest products, and amount of fine if the tax regulation was violated. The intervention of the Dutch East Indies that was obviously seen in the tax regulation was that the amount of income earned by the Kingdom was determined by the Dutch East Indies.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nadhifa Salsabila Martaputri
AU  - Priscila Fitriasih Limbong
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Tax Regulations on Forest Products in Ternate at the XIX Century
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 62
EP  - 66
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.013
ID  - Martaputri2020
ER  -