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Your steward seems to compensate a good part of the penalty.
The remaining bonus could come from personal stewardship.
 
You are supposed to get -75% from it. But notice that you have a +10% modifier also, which brings it down to -65%. The rest of the difference most likely comes from your Steward standing in the province to collect taxes which gives a large bonus as well.