Quote Originally Posted by poetic_justice
Actually taxes existed in Medievil England, a peasant having to pay tax (or rent) for his land to the local Lord as well as taxes to the church called a "Tithe" (about 10% of the value of everything the peasant had farmed). There were also taxes on the produce produced on the land the peasant owned.
I didn't write this but the statement said that none of the "above mentioned" taxes existed, not that were no taxes at all.