How the ancient government used to collect taxes from people in times where there was no national identify card policies to track them?

Question

I’m not sure why this came into my mind or how the tax collection system works in different countries or even if the national identify card policy is a thing in this case but I’m just curious to know.

In: Economics

Answer 1

Rule 2.

r/askhistorians might know better. Besides that, not every modern country has a national ID card.