Tolerance tax

Tolerance tax or toleration tax (Latin: taxa tolerantialis; German: Toleranzgebührer; Hungarian: türelmi adó) was a tax that was levied against the Jews of the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austrian Empire, between 1747 and 1797.

The tax was based on the German statute that a Jew was obliged to pay a certain tax to be tolerated, i.e., not expelled.

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