Tax

Legislation, Tax

Taxation Act 1722

Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, imposing a tax on the estates of all Catholics to reimburse the government for the expenses of suppressing recent conspiracies.

Tax

Window tax

Tax based on the number of windows a property had, widely but erroneously believed to have resulted in many windows being bricked up.

Tax

Heriot

Feudal form of inheritance tax that persisted until 1922.

Tax

Taxes on knowledge

Long-running campaign against duties on newspapers, their advertising content and the paper they were printed on.

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Brick tax

Tax on bricks introduced in Great Britain in 1784 to help pay for the American War of Independence.

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Glass tax

Two taxes on glass were introduced in England during the 1690s, the first on glass itself and the second on windows.

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