Tax Collection Method in Afsharie Era

In surveying any of the kingdoms in Iran, we will find out that each of them has its own special social, political, official, and military system. In each of them, the former systems were utilized. Gradually they were accepted after some modifications. But when we study the Afsharie kingdom, we find that at a high extent, its social and official structures are perfectly emulated of the Safari’s kingdom. One of the main reasons in this regard is that the founder of this kingdom, Nader, spent about 12 years in war. So he couldn’t get enough opportunity to design a proper social system. However, Nader’s authority was just under the auspicious of his forces’ swords so, in order to provide comfort for his people and to empower his authority he attempted to collect tax from different groups of people in society. In this paper, it was attempted to explore the various ways of tax collection, people’s feedback, and the ways of spending the collected tax.