article_snippet: No-one enjoys filing their tax return, but paying your duty would have been an even more arduous task  2,000 years ago.
article_snippet: A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt has revealed that A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt probably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle just one wealthy person's bill.
article_snippet: A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt (pictured) has revealed that A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt (pictured) provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill. 
article_snippet: The person, whose name is unreadable, paid a land transfer tax of 75 talents, which was a unit of currency, as well as a fee of 15 talents on top, reports LiveScience.
article_snippet: A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt shows that the tax was paid in coins, which were hauled to a bank in the city of Diospolis Magna, also known as Luxor or Thebes.
article_snippet: Consequently, 540,000 drachma were needed to settle the tax bill written on the receipt.
article_snippet: Catharine Lorber, an expert in Egyptian coins, explained that the highest denomination coin was probably worth just 40 drachma, so 13,500 of Catharine Lorber, an expert in Egyptian coins would have been needed to pay it provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill.
article_snippet: The people charged with collecting the money, known as tax farmers, would have had to ring the heavy load to the bank, and the bank may have been placed in baskets and carried by donkeys.
article_snippet: the receipt shows that the tax was paid in coins, which were hauled to a bank in the city of Diospolis Magna, also known as Luxor or Thebes.
highlights_snippet: Currency may have been transported to a bank in Luxor, Egypt by donkeys .
  