The alcabala or alcavala (Spanish pronunciation: [alkaˈβala]) was a sales tax of up to fourteen percent, the most important royal tax imposed by Spain...

privileges granted by his predecessors at the Court of Castile, such as the alcabala (a heavy sales tax) and the right to attend the council. He increased the...

Historic Places. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Border crossings. Alcabala Border Border control Border outpost Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin...

large-scale uprising could occur. In 1778 Spain raised sales taxes (known as the alcabala) on goods such as rum and pulque (the common alcoholic beverages of the...

increases in levels of taxation upon indigenous populations – such as the alcabala or sales tax. Túpac Amaru II's rebellion was sparked when he (Condorcanqui)...

Mexico's Atlantic trade." Economically, the city was exempted from the alcabala (sales tax) and almojarifazgo (import/export duties) for its first century...

standing military and fortification of ports. To raise funds, the sales tax alcabala was increased from 2% to 5%. To increase trade, Havana and other Caribbean...

to be committing tax evasion, since the crown was owed the sales tax (alcabala) on each slave sold.  Encomenderos de Negros were permanent residents (vecinos)...

commission[which?] agrees to the rebels'[where?] terms: reduction of the alcabala and of the Indians' forced tribute, abolition of the new taxes on tobacco...

in 1903 those in Egypt were also abolished. A similar tax, called the Alcabala, was collected in Spain and the Spanish colonies. This tax was in force...