[nickcarraway]

A khipu records numbers through knots in the strings. Both the position and type of the knot sets its value.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

If they had taxes, I am awaiting the discovery of texts by the Incan Walter Williams, explaining why they should do away with taxes.

[Army Air Corps]

Tax records fashioned like a scourge...how fitting.

[ApplegateRanch]

Or, they could be tallies kept by Temple Prostitutes priestesses, to keep track of how many furrows any particular farmer would have fertilized by the gods.

From that, taxes owed cold be calculated

[rod1]

Looks like a flat tax to me.

[Jabba the Nutt]

And I thought Red Tape was bad.

[grjr21]

"The challenging thing is that, while we can read these numerical values that are knotted onto the strings, we don't know what they refer to,"

My guess is that they refer to what States have the best welfare benefits

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nick. Not gonna ping it, we've had a couple of similar topics. I'd not be surprised if Inca accounting existed for taxes of some kind.

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[Old Professer]

I guess that explains their extinction.