There was also a zecriye resmi – a tax on "prohibited goods" – applied to alcohol sold in markets in the eighteenth century.
[3] Müskirat resmi persisted in the tanzimat era; the Ministry of Finance established a separate department (zecriye emaneti) to collect revenues from alcohol taxation.
Tax reforms simplified the rate at 20%, and imported alcohol was subject to another müskirat charge (instead of customs), which ranged from 10% to 12%.
In 1861, the general müskirat tax was reduced from 20% to 10% – but alcohol sellers were required to pay for additional permits (ruhsatname; the cost was a proportion of their rent).
[1] Only in 1926, were alcoholic drinks made legal for Muslims (in what was, by then, Turkey); manufacturing and distribution continued under government monopoly.