But the state has grown inexorably ever since and with it the fiscal burden on the middle class.

The fiscal burden on businesses and households will go up by €2 billion next year, rising to €7.1 billion in 2020.

He cries at the unfair fiscal burden on the low-paid in a cartoon.

The fiscal burden of protective measures increased, due both to lower receipts from import duties and higher domestic expenditure.

At a 1748 conference of cities, he brought about a revision of 1718 tax rates and a more equitable distribution of fiscal burdens.