You do realise that all states in Europe levied this tithe, right? And that this continues mainly in the Scandanavian Protestant countries now?
Yes I know all countries do not do this.
The post I originally responded too was talking about the Inquisition.
I specifically wrote that Spain collected it on all agricultural goods including livestock for the Roman Catholic Church.
Spain did this until about 10 years after the Inquisition.
I later wrote than SOME European countries still collect for their churches from members of those churches and automatically remove a certain percentage from paychecks.
Some does not mean all .