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142 CHAPTER 3Table 3.4 Average number of head of livestock per taxable head of population andaverage amount of cattle tax to be paid sum total in Région of Gao, 1963Cercle cattle asses camels sheep/goats average cattletax sum totalAnsongo 2.32 0.27 0.24 6.92 1170.04 FMBourem 1.32 0.27 0.25 2.48 652.40 FMDiré 0.64 0.16 0.001 2.17 320.10 FMGao 1.49 0.18 0.08 2.83 642.10 FMGoundam 1.06 0.17 0.04 3.38 523.40 FMKidal 1.27 0.57 1.28 9.25 1423.90 FMMénaka 2.51 0.78 1.13 10.72 1861.78 FMRharous 3.17 0.26 0.03 9.52 1470.20 FMTimbuktu 0.98 0.27 0.37 4.86 717.40 FMSource: Based on Tables 3.2 and 3.3.Ahelelu is behind the mountain with his campThey pay no taxMali goes to the wars against the Iforas to punish themThey pay no taxBut the Iforas have guns and bullets, they kill the military of MaliIforas pay no taxAhelelu is dead, but his son takes his placeIforas pay no tax. 66Here, the reasons for revolt are turned upside down. It was not so much theincrease in taxes that sparked the Kel Adagh to revolt, but the fact that they didnot pay any taxes in the first place that set the Malian army to punish them. Theidea that the Ifoghas did not pay tax can be easily supported. Virtually everyreport from the colonial administration mentions the resistance against thelevying of taxes. The delay in payment is constant. The same goes for the scantevidence available for the Malian administration. In spring 1967, only a rough15% (FM 3,659,725 of FM 23,873,060) of national taxes and a rough 65% (FM490,740 of FM 768,720) of regional taxes had been collected in the Cercle ofKidal for the running fiscal year, with regional and national taxes for the fiscalyears 1966 and 1965 still not fully collected. 67 Ifoghas paid no tax.6667Nicolaisen, J. & I. Nicolaisen 1997: 581.Based on: Cercle de Kidal, Revue mensuelle des évènements du mois de février1967; Cercle de Kidal, Revue mensuelle des évènements du mois d’avril 1967; andCercle de Kidal, Revue mensuelle des évènements du mois de mai 1967. ACK.