Due notice was given to each individual of the sum for which he was liable, by the publication in each province, town, and village, of a tax table, in which each citizen or alien could see against his name the amount about to be claimed of him, with the ground upon which it was regarded as due.
Payment had to made by instalments, three times each year, at the end of every four months.
In order to prevent the unfair extortion, which in the ancient world was always, with reason or without, charged upon collectors of revenue, Chosroes, by the advice of the Grand Mobed, authorized the Magian priests everywhere to exercise a supervision over the receivers of taxes, and to hinder them from exacting more than their due.

The priests were only too happy to discharge this popular function; and extortion must have become rare under a system which comprised so efficient a safeguard.
Another change ascribed to Chosroes is a reform of the administration of the army.

Under the system previously existing, Chosroes found that the resources of the state were lavishly wasted, and the result was a military force inefficient and badly accoutred.

No security was taken that the soldiers possessed their proper equipments or could discharge the duties appropriate to their several grades.

Persons came before the paymaster, claiming the wages of a cavalry soldier, who possessed no horse, and had never learned to ride.