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Overworking your serfs to meet the silver tax burden reduces their health, decreasing their hitpoints. However you get Crates of 100 Coin for each minute the game has lasted so far.
—In-game description

Tax Burden is a technology in Age of Empires III that is unique to the Knights of St. John in Act I: Blood and can be researched at the Church once the Royal Decree to Claim the New World Home City Card has been sent. Once researched, it reduces the hit points of Settlers by 40% but ships 100 coin for every minute the game has passed, up to 30 minutes (for a total of 3,000 coin).

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The coin shipped by Tax Burden is by far the largest shipment of coin in the game, while its penalty can be entirely offset by the Great Coat improvement at the Market and the Pioneers Home City Card.

Unique religious technologies in Age of Empires III
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Flag BritishDE BritishThin Red Line · The Black Watch · Roger's Rangers · Queen's Rangers
Flag DutchDE DutchCoffee Trade · Red Lancers · Blue Guards
Flag FrenchDE FrenchCode Napoleon · Young Guard · Middle Guard · Old Guard
Flag GermanDE GermansTilly's Discipline · Wallenstein's Contracts · Zweihänder
Flag John Black's Mercenaries DE John Black's MercenariesIndian Friendship · Customized Merc Weapons
Flag Maltese Cross Knights of St. JohnCorselet · Tax Burden · High Crusade
Flag OttomanDE OttomansNew Order Infantry · Topçu Corps · Kapikulu Corps · Tufanci Corps*
Flag PortugueseDE PortugueseEncomienda Manor · Ordenança · Order of the Tower and the Sword · Besteiros*
Flag RussianDE RussiansWesternization · St. Petersburg Dragoons · Petrine Reforms · Lifeguard Jaegers
Flag SpanishDE SpanishCorselet · Royal Alabarderos · Wild Geese · Walloon Guards
Flag American act3 aoe3de United States (campaign)Grand Encampment · American Patriots
Age3DE Icon Definitive Edition
Flag SwedishDE SwedesPush of Pike · Savolax Jaegers · Gustavian Guards
Flag American act3 aoe3de United StatesPennsylvania Pound · 1st Pennsylvania Rifles · Pennsylvania Cavalry
Flag MexicanDE MexicansFirst Guarantee · Second Guarantee · Third Guarantee
Knights of the Mediterranean
Flag ItalianDE ItaliansCarabinieri · Risorgimento · Papacy
Flag MalteseDE MalteseTeutonic Knights · Crusader Knights · Knights of the Hospital
United States requires the "Philadelphia Convention" Federal Card to unlock unique religious technologies
* Before the Definitive Edition
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