Land was taken away from prominent landlords and redistributed to tenants and landless farmers. Families received land based on the number of labor points each family obtained, and the "newly redistributed land would be taxed at the rate of about 25 percent of the annual harvest."[1]:27 Southern landowners were able to keep more land than northern landowners – they were allowed 20 chongbo (about 50 acres); in the North, nothing over 5 chongbo was permitted.[1]:27