Seizing Shops and Taxation

The Markets in the Old Town

Seizing Shops and Taxation

When the occupation fails in destroying markets, it uses other ways, like imposing high taxes on shopkeepers. By doing so, the shopkeepers have no choice but close their shops, and the occupation achieves its goal

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