Temple tax

Josephus reports that at the end of the 30s CE "many tens of thousands" of Babylonian Jews guarded the convoy taking the tax to Jerusalem (Ant.

[6] Although the word "temple" does not appear in this text, the King James Version translates it to "tribute", but it is certainly "the tax inaugurated by God in the wilderness"[7] in Exodus 30:11–16.

The first Roman attempt to halt payments of the tax was made long before The Jewish War on account of customs controls.

The Senate had forbidden the export of gold and silver, but the Jews of Italy continued to pay the Temple tax.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70, a new Roman tax was imposed on the Jews, the Fiscus Judaicus, which was diverted into imperial coffers.