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navigation, search  The resm-i mücerred was a bachelor tax in
the Ottoman Empire, related to the resm-i çift and the resm-i
bennâk.[1]  The amount payable varied from year to year and from
region to region, but the tax was payable annually, in March, to
the timar holder (nominally a sipahi) or to the tax-farmer
(iltizam). However, a muafname (tax exemption) might excuse a
person, or a village, or an entire social group from paying
resm-i mücerred and related taxes; alternatively, örfi taxes
might be lifted from a community but they would still have to
pay resm-i mücerred.  Resm-i mücerred was paid by landless poor
or unmarried peasants who did not have sufficient resources to
qualify for the resm-i çift and the resm-i bennâk land-taxes -
whose names, taken literally, refer to one "çift" of land, and a
half-çift, respectively.[2] This structure may have been
directly inherited from the Byzantine system of land taxes, in
areas which were conquered