Popa: Because of the context and the reason. I haven’t seen it inside in years, but this is what I thought and Rav Schachter says it very strongly quite often. The Ran is talking about the Din that a government/king has a right to charge taxes to give people the R’shus to live in their land. Since HKBH, and no human king or government, is the Ba’alim on Eretz Yisrael, they have no right to charge for living privileges in Israel. Not that no Dina D’malchusa applies there. Just this one specific instance of it.
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