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arbitrio contribuyente

English translation: municipal taxpayer

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Spanish term or phrase:	arbitrio contribuyente
English translation:	municipal taxpayer
Entered by:	Gloria Carranza

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23:44 Jan 25, 2012

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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Receipt from Municipal Treasury

Spanish term or phrase: arbitrio contribuyente

The term is in a document from Guatemala which is a Receipt from the Municipal Treasury. The first mention is ARBITRIOS ONATOS VARIOS then there is a concept that reads: ARBITRIO CONTRIBUYENTE then a number.

I have no idea what this term means. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gracias.

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municipal taxpayer

Explanation:
books.google.com/books?isbn=0826339093...
Jordana Dym - 2006 - History - 390 pages
Gazeta de Guatemala (1797-1816)89 — that continued to attract regional ... 91 Learning, perhaps, from the Bourbon emphasis on tax collection as a way to exert ... increasingly to the arbitrio, a royally approved local tax on goods bought and ...

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Note added at 10 mins (2012-01-25 23:55:27 GMT)
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might need some reworking but have a look at this lengthy piece on taxes in Guatemala

http://www.uccs-america.org/english/Archivos/Biblioteca/Impu...