The tax came to be called that because Jews paying had to deposit a coin in a box at the kosher slaughterer.
[1] The burden of taxes, and the korobka in particular, was one of the factors which drove many Jews to abandon the towns and settle in villages or on the estates of noblemen.
[6] With the annexation to Austria in 1772[clarification needed], special taxes were imposed on Galician Jews ("Eastern Jews") for marriage permits, kosher meat, synagogues, and similar items.
[7] In 1741, Moldavian prince Grigore Ghica confirmed the obligation of each Jew to pay the crupca, an indirect tax on kosher meat similar to the Russian korobka.
[8] In the 18th and 19th centuries, Germany appears to have had a "kosher meat tax" imposed by municipalities and used to support the local Jewish community.