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Readings in Philippine History

1. Cedulas were important identity documents during Spanish colonial rule that served as residence certificates, allowed payment of taxes, and contained personal information. They were also used to restrict movement and non-compliance could result in arrest. 2. Taxation in the Philippines began with payments to local chiefs, then transitioned to an annual tribute paid to the Spanish crown by those aged 16-60 worth 1 peso. Other forms of tax payment included goods like gold, chickens, rice, and forced labor. 3. Modern equivalents to the cedula include government-issued identity cards that serve similar purposes of identification, residence verification, and taxation, but the colonial context and restrictions of the cedula no

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Readings in Philippine History

1. Cedulas were important identity documents during Spanish colonial rule that served as residence certificates, allowed payment of taxes, and contained personal information. They were also used to restrict movement and non-compliance could result in arrest. 2. Taxation in the Philippines began with payments to local chiefs, then transitioned to an annual tribute paid to the Spanish crown by those aged 16-60 worth 1 peso. Other forms of tax payment included goods like gold, chickens, rice, and forced labor. 3. Modern equivalents to the cedula include government-issued identity cards that serve similar purposes of identification, residence verification, and taxation, but the colonial context and restrictions of the cedula no

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Carla Mikaela Caamic Readings in the Philippine History

BEED-GENED Mr. Eric Malabanan

Activity 1 in Midterm

1. Enumerate 10 reasons why cedula were so important during Spanish time.

 Important because when one has transactions with the Spanish government.

 residence tax certificate and as a passport

 paying tax

 It shall bear data such as the identity, the status, birth and other information
of the holder.

 It was used by Spanish authorities to restrict the movement of people and


those who could not present their cedulas could be arrested and imprisoned
by the Guardia Civil.

 Symbol of resistance and of liberating themselves and their country from


colonialism.

 Restored when municipalities and cities started issuing the same for collection
of taxes from corporations and employees for the use of government service.

2. How did taxation start in the Philippines?

 All started from the Ancient Filipinos, where they pay their taxes to their Datu
or the Chiefs for the protection they gave to them, the tax was termed buwis.
Everyone is required to pay their taxes, except for the Datu/Chieftain’s
household. Punishment for not paying taxes was also implemented on this
period. The arrival or invasion of the Spanish People from 1521 to 1898 gave
the Filipinos modern concepts of taxation, wherein 16 years old to 60 years
old where forced to pay tributes or tributo to the King of Spain through the
Colonial Government worth 8 reales or 1 peso per year, but there are also
other forms of payment like gold, chickens, textile, rice and forced labor or
Polo Y Servicio.

3. What is the equivalent of cedula to our modern time? Similarities and Differences.
 Was the product of various historical factors and intervening circumstances,
proper to those past centuries, so different in many aspects from our present
day condition, Spanish temperament and colonial prejudices against the
native race had little, if anything at all, to· do with this problem. To attribute
such past deficiencies to the Spanish colonial regime, or to the temperament
and prejudices against the native race, would be tantamount to blaming
Spain or the Spanish people for not having given us, in the past, motor cars,
radio, television or air mail; and the missionaries of those days.

 There was the whole web of economic activities in the Philippines related to
the economic foundation of the imperial system itself. The first element of
that web is groups of traders in Manila with interests in the trans-Pacific
system. Some were from Acapulco or Mexico City, as a natural result of more
than two centuries of monopolistic trade. Others were Spaniards, who the
state had rewarded with boletas (licenses) which allowed them to ship cargo
in authorised vessels. Some of them worked for themselves, while many
others were little more than intermediaries for the institutions that provided
credit, particularly the ‘sacred works’ of the powerful Catholic church in the
Philippines.

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