Editing Tokugawa shogunate (section)

=== Government income ===
The primary source of the shogunate's income was the tax (around 40%) levied on harvests in the Tokugawa clan's personal domains (tenryō).<ref name="mikiso perez 2015" /> No taxes were levied on domains of daimyos, who instead provided military duty, public works and [[Corvée|corvee]].<ref name="mikiso perez 2015" /> The shogunate obtained loans from merchants, which were sometimes seen as forced donations, although commerce was often not taxed.<ref name="mikiso perez 2015" /> Special levies were also imposed for infrastructure-building.<ref name="mikiso perez 2015" />