In Ancient Egypt taxes were paid with work or in kind. Considering that the Egyptian people belonged to the pharaoh, it was to him that the people, for the food, had to give free labor. Only the craftsmen and the peasants, the Egyptian productive part, had to pay the taxes. During the tinita epoch several censuses were made through which the future incomes were known in great advance. How? The presumed yield of the fields at harvest was calculated, observing the height reached by the floods of the Nile. The amount of the tax was then calculated by the scribes. The amount of the taxes wasn’t left to the scribes’ decision, but it was all supervised by the functionaries who had to follow a precise procedure. The cases in which a peasant had to pay a tax which he wasn’t able to, were very rare. Anyway there were also abuses. Who thought himself a victim could complain and he was listened to. Considering the variety of objects that came from the payment of the taxes, which went from wheat to fish, from tanned skins to incense, the cities all had deposits for the stocks. The temples also had to pay taxes, except if they had a card of immunity (ar), deposited in the royal archives, where rights and duties were listed. The representations are frequent, among the burial paintings, of scenes of tax collection in the fields and of the beatings inflicted upon the unwilling peasants.