Emperor Renzong's Tax Reduction Edict

Timeline

1. 1042Kaifeng · Northern SongOn renwu day of the third month, Emperor Renzong issued an edict waiving the year's summer tax in prefectures and garrisons across the circuits hit by disasters, to relieve the livelihoods of victims.
2. 1042Kaifeng · Northern SongThe court ordered Jia Changchao, Zhang Fangping, Yao Zhongsun, and others to discuss cutting superfluous expenditures, and, as the Song-Xia War drove up frontier costs, began reforming state finances and reducing non-urgent spending.
3. 1042Kaifeng · Northern SongAt year's end a grace edict was issued, granting cash to the armies, waiving two-tenths of Shaanxi's summer tax, reducing Hedong's grain levies, and commuting prisoners' sentences by one degree to complement the tax reductions.