What is "tax in kind"

Tax in kind or tax-in-kind usually refers to any taxation that is paid in kind, that is with goods or services rather than money, including:

• fisc, in the Frankish kingdoms of the Medieval period
• food render, a feorm or tax-in-kind provided through royal vills in Anglo-Saxon England
• kharaj, instituted during the period of the Islamic Empire
• a tax on agricultural produce imposed by the Confederate States of America in 1863
• Prodnalog, paid by private farms in Bolshevik Russia during the 1920s
• An agricultural tax in North Korea imposed in 1947 and abolished in 1966