Taxes from senatorial and imperial provinces were directed to separate treasuries under Augustus
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Historical reference sources confirm that under Augustus, financial administration was structured so that revenues from senatorial provinces were directed to the state treasury (aerarium), while imperial finances were managed through separate imperial treasuries or the fiscus.
Abstract. With the establishment of the Principate, in addition to the state treasury (aerarium), the Emperor՚s personal treasury (fiscus) was founded. There was a gradual increase in the revenue of the fiscus at the expense of the aerarium. In 6 AD a military aerarium militare was established and a 5 % inheritance tax was introduced to fill it. The establishment of the Principate did not reduce taxes; on the contrary, some of them increased and even some new ones were introduced. However, the tax collection system improved. Control over tax collection, as well as control over the national treasury was in the hands of the Emperor, although theoretically the Senate retained the right to control the aerarium. However, already during the reign of Augustus there was a practice that left no doubt that the Emperor had a decisive voice in matters of the national treasury. The funds available to the Senate were limited to direct tax revenues from provinces, which were subject to formal control by the Senate. If those revenues were insufficient, the aerarium was supplemented from the emperor՚s funds. The tax pressure on the population in the senatorial provinces was higher than in the imperial ones.There were direct (tributa) and indirect (vectigalia) taxes in the Roman Empire. Direct taxes were collected by the governor of the province and his employees, while indirect taxes were collected by publicans (publicani), who used to be representatives of the ordo equester. Gradually, the i
... Augustus initially adopted a system that was , on the surface , fair to the Senate . Just as the world was divided into provinces designated as im- perial or senatorial , so was the treasury . All tribute brought in from senatorially ...
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The corrupt and uneconomical method of farming out the collection of the revenue was, to a great extent, replaced by collection through the officials of the imperial household. The earlier Roman treasury (aerarium) was formally retained for the receipt of revenue from the senatorial provinces, but the officials were appointed by the Princeps and became gradually mere municipal officers. The real centre of finance was the fiscus or imperial treasury, which was under the exclusive control of the ruler (“res fiscales,” says Ulpian, “quasi propriae et privatae principis sunt”), and was administered by officials of his household. Under the Republic the Senate had been the financial authority, with the Censors as finance ministers and the Quaestors as secretaries of the treasury. Never very precise, this system in the 1st century B.C. fell into extreme decay. By means of his freedmen the emperor introduced the more rigorous economy of the Roman household into public finance.
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