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The relationship between the University and the Patrician, absolute ruler and nearly benevolent dictator of Ankh-Morpork, was a complex and subtle one.
The wizards said that the University stood on magical ground and was therefore exempt from taxation and anyway you couldn’t put a tax on knowledge.
The Patrician said you could. It was two hundred dollars per capita; if per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged. The wizards said that the University had never paid taxes to the civil authority.
The Patrician said he was not proposing to remain civil for long.held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city.The Patrician said that, indeed, this was the case, but they would bloody well pay their taxes like everyone else.The wizards said that, as followers of the light of wisdom, they owed allegiance to no mortal man.The Patrician said that this may well be true but they also owed a city tax of two hundred dollars per head per annum, payable quarterly. The wizards