Why was the Eastern Roman Empire able to collect more taxes than the Western Roman Empire? It could collect additional money fro
m the Goths. It had a larger population from which to collect taxes. It taxed the groups coming into the area to farm land. It placed high taxes on the empire’s declining population.
It placed high taxes on the empire’s declining population.
Explanation:
This is part of the reason that contributed greatly towards the fall of the Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire never factored in the fact that, the population is declining with the land outputs increasingly decreasing.
He overlooked all the signs but still went ahead to increase the taxes unlike the Western Roman Empire that would sometimes refund excess taxes to people or lower the taxes according to the economic situation.
