Fiscus

Auguste sets up a system, which leaves with the senate control finances, but only seemingly. The treasure, the Ærarium, like the empire, is then cut out in province. The local Treasuries, always called Ærarium, are under the dependence of the fiscus , treasure central, with the hand of the emperor. He literally means, in Latin, the basket or the purse . This deeply modifies the distribution of the capacities between the senate and the Dominat, during the High-Empire, between the Sénat and the Emperor. The senators keep the control of Ærarium in each provinces, which pour its revenues from taxes with the fiscus . The fiscus is directed by a Affranchi, the Rationalis independent of the system of the Roman social classes.

After Tibère, the fiscus became a personal bottom including the reserve funds, the revenues from taxes, the grounds private of the emperor and the grounds public. From Severe Septime, the capacity power station is still reinforced, the fiscus becomes the whole of the public revenue Roman and it is separate in private inheritance of the emperor and heritage of the royal house. The details of this separation are very discussed by the historians. Under Hadrian, the Rationnalis , very unpopular and corrupted, is chapeauté by a member of the equestrian Ordre. Under Dioclétien appears what can apparanterà a Minister for Finance, the Comes sacrarum largitionum , count of generosities crowned. Its capacity extends on the sacrum aerarium , meeting of the aerarium and the fiscus .

Juvénal makes a Satire of it, by writing that the big size of the Adriatic Sea is due to the tax department of Domitien.

See too

the Tax department, administration of various countries whose name derives from fiscus
Congiarium
Rationalis
Rationibus
Roman economy

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