Mantal

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A mantal (Finnish: manttaali) is an obsolete unit once used in Finland and Sweden to measure the size and productivity of a piece of land. In the 1900s, the mantal lost its relevance because crown land taxes ceased to exist and the government started drawing revenue from income taxes.^{[citation needed]} Today, mantal values are only used in connection with some rural obligations and rights, while the size of farms in Finland is reported in hectares.

A mantal measures both physical area and monetary worth as it takes into account the productivity of the land. It is a cameral measurement instrument used to gauge the wealth of a farm to determine its apportionment. According to Sjöström,^[1] in essence the mantal values for farms in a village show their share of the village's lands.

A landed estate's share of the joint properties of a village (such as bodies of water, undeveloped common land, and some specific things^[why?]) is defined by its mantal value. The mantal value was also used as a basis for taxation. A farm had to pay a fixed annual land tax and several other taxes (i.e. auxiliary taxes and tithes).