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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the content and practical application of a number of tax laws
introduced by the Qing Imperial authorities in Northern (Khalkha) Mongolia in XVIII — first half of XIX century.
These laws limited the amount of fiscal revenues collected from the inhabitants of Mongolian steppes that could
be used by native aristocrats as remuneration for the performance of their administrative service duties. As a
result, the author found that Mongolian and Chinese sources contain numerous pieces of information about the
constant tendency to neglect the norms of Qing tax legislation, which was typical for North Mongolian princes
and officials. Reasons for wide spread of such phenomena may be related to the transformation of social and legal
system that occurred in Mongolia in XVIII — first half of XIX century due to the influence of the Qing Empire.