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agroevilc | What was wrong with the window tax? |
Gordon asked me to test the waters for a possible return of this tax |
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Nini
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Hee heee, now THAT was funny! |
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Ally
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This is where the term daylight robbery came from - I'm surprised Gordon didn't think of it sooner!! |
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fivetoze
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many many years ago, as a joke, we published and delivered a raft of leaflets about the reintroduction of the window tax... (it was around the same time as the poll tax fiasco)
we posted these leaflets in the estates and we went back a week of so later..them cheesy cheapskates had actually painted over their windows to avoid the tax... we published in several dialects.. urdu, gujarati, arabic, french and spanish...
we had a damn good laugh... |
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Barks-at-Parrots
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The rich have most windows and the rich are most influential with 'New Labour'. So, no window tax likely. |
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John S
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Nothing was particularly wrong with it, except that it was a rather clumsy way to determine the value of property. Assessed valuation is much more accurate. Of course, if you don't think that the cost of municipal services should be borne most by those who are most able to pay them, then any assessment based upon value would be objectionable.
And, BTW, the term daylight robbery did NOT come from this tax, since the tax (enacted in 1696 and repealed in 1851) far predated that term (first seen in 1949). |
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bergerferg
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The window tax was around in the Georgian period, when glass was very expensive and hard to make. This meant that taxing houses per number of windows meant you were taxing the households with the most money.
This wouldnt really work these days as glass is relatively cheap and most houses have a similar number of windows (unless you are completely loaded and have an enourmous mansion with a million windows). |
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podge k
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in ireland when the window taxes came in and were enforced by the crown they built cottage without any windows but with a half door that separated in the middle meaning that they paid no taxes for windows and they still had in effect a large window n the guise of a door - ingenius - necessity does breed invention! |
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The window tax was a glass tax which was an important social, cultural, and architectural force in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and then Great Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Glass making was costly and the use of glass for windows and other purposes was even costlier because of a tax levied specifically on it. The tax was introduced in 1696 under King William III and was designed to impose tax relative to the prosperity of the taxpayer, but without the controversy that then surrounded the idea of income tax. At that time, many people in Britain opposed income tax, on principle, because they believed that the disclosure of personal income represented an unacceptable government intrusion into private matters, and a potential threat to personal liberty. In fact the first British income tax was not introduced until the late 18th century and the issue remained intensely controversial well into the 19th century. Window tax was relatively unintrusive and easy to assess. The bigger the house, the more windows it was likely to have, hence the more tax the occupants would pay. This is the reason for the bricked-up windows so often seen in very old houses in the UK.
The richest families in the kingdoms used this tax to set themselves apart from the merely rich. They would commission a country home or a manor house whose architecture would make the maximum possible use of windows. In extreme cases they would have windows built over structural walls. It was an exercise in ostentation, spurred by the window tax.
The tax was not repealed until 1851, when it was replaced by a tax akin to the present-day council tax.
Some allege that the term "daylight robbery" originated from this tax, but given that the phrase daylight robbery was first recorded in 1949, centuries after the "window tax", this seems unlikely.
There was a similar tax in France, the doors and windows tax, from 1798 to 1926, but with the inverse effect. |
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only2days2go
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Like Mr King in Emmerdale, it fell through....... |
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ANF
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He couldn't do it because Blair would like to be on show with as many windows as possible. People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.Then again he could be thinking of Micro Soft. If every window was taxed by just 1 pound there would be billions of pounds to be collected.
Happy new Year. |
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