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This article offers some food for thought based on the articles in the dossier on tax property in Italy (with a contribution on the Middle Meuse). It points out five specific aspects that deserve discussion: 1° the more or less restrictive definition of the concept of fiscus 2° that of the stra- tegic importance of the control of resources (fuel, ore, energy) in these fiscal properties 3° the problem of the organisation of work and the presence of corvée on fiscal properties 4° the way in which wealth circulated, according to interpretative models alternative to trade before the dissolution of the Ottonian order, in Italy, and the paradigm shift caused by the commercial boom – with its links with cities 5° the overall economic consequences, in the medium and long term, of the redistribution of fiscal properties into the hands of other owners.