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Tax Exemption and Athenian Imperial Politics: The Case of Chalkis
- Transactions of the American Philological Association
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 144, Number 2, Autumn 2014
- pp. 263-306
- 10.1353/apa.2014.0014
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This paper argues that the clause at IG I3 40.52–57, which refers to taxation of aliens at Chalkis and has long puzzled scholars, stipulated that any non-Chalkidian who had been granted immunity from Athenian tele, conditional on residence at Athens or not, should enjoy the same immunity from Chalkidian tele at Chalkis; that the inscription belongs to 424/3 b.c.e , when Athenian law and honorific practice were much concerned with taxation and immunities. Though long seen as fiscal punishment by a newly imperial Athens, the action was connected to later debates about local honors and domestic taxation, and was rather mild.