José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo

Fiscalidad real y fiscalidad municipal en Castilla durante el siglo XVII: el caso de Madrid

This article studies the interrelation between royal and municipal taxation in Castile during the 17th century through the analysis of the case of Madrid. After the introduction, the second part describes the main royal taxes levied in the city, while the third studies municipal ones. The fourth part deals with those royal taxes transferred by the Crown to Madrid after 1653 in return for the substantial monetary services provided. These different taxes are shown at an aggregate level in fifth part. The series obtained shows how while the importance of Madrid as a source of fiscal revenues for the Crown fell during the second half of the century, its role as supplier of monetary services aroused. As a whole, the sums paid by the capital inhabitants both to the royal and municipal treasuries grew throughout the century. Finally, the sixth part discusses the series after deflating it by New Castile price index between 1621 and 1700. KEY Classification-JEL: E65, H71, N13, N23, N43, N93

Fiscalidad y precios en Castilla en el siglo xvii: los precios del vino en Madrid, 1606-1700

This article deals with the relations between taxation and prices levels in seventeenth century Castile through an analysis of the influence of royal and municipal taxes on the retail prices of cheap wine in Madrid between 1606 and 1700. First part describes the taxes levied on cheap wine by the Castilian Crown and the town council in Madrid. Both kinds of taxes provided the Royal and the City Treasuries with the most important part of their tax revenues. Second part analyzes how the Royal and the city authorities estimated the monetary value of the taxes and excises levied on this beverage. Lastly, third part shows that the burden of the royal and municipal taxes levied on a litre of cheap wine rose during the period. If in 1606-10 both types of taxes amounted to around 30 per cent of the retail prices of a litre of cheap wine, in the last third of the century this percentage had risen to 60-65 per cent.

Algunas notas sobre el consumo y comercialización de tejidos en Castilla a comienzos del siglo XVII: la encuesta de 1618

El presente articulo ofrece algunas notas sobre el consumo y la comercializacion de textiles en varias areas de Castilla en las primeras decadas del siglo XVII a partir de una nueva fuente documental: la encuesta de 1618. La primera parte expone las caracteristicas de la frente documental. En la segunda se analizan las transacciones de tejidos atendiendo a la fibra empleada en su elaboracion. La tercera parte presenta algunas notas sobre la tipologia de los tejidos vendidos en Castilla en 1614-16. Esto nos permite analizar las areas de comercializacion de dos generos representativos de la paneria castellana: los panos segovianos y los de Cordoba, Ubeda y Baeza. Por ultimo, a partir del estudio del consumo de tejidos por vecino en varios partidos y distritos y del analisis de las relaciones de intercambio entre los precios del trigo y los de varios tejidos en 1614-16 se detectan varios indicios que apuntan a unos niveles de consumo de tejidos mas elevados en Andalucia que en Castilla la Vieja.

La fiscalidad municipal en Castilla en el siglo XVII: el caso de Madrid

This paper deals with the history of urban taxation in XVIIth century Castile through an study focused on Madrid. During the XVIIth century the Castilian cities granted many monetary aids (“servicios”) to the Crown (part I). This drove the expansion of urban indebtedness and the introduction of new indirect taxes in most Castilian cities, which exerted an important, although far from overwhelming, influence on the rise of price levels and the simultaneous fall of real wages in Madrid and, presumibly, other Castilian cities (part II). In return for these “servicios”, the Crown transferred Madrid most of the “servicios de millones” levied in the capital and this reduced the capacity of the Royal Treasury to increase its revenues in the long term (part III).