Oates Robert M. Schwab Journal of Economic Perspectives vol. Article Information Comments 0 Abstract The window tax provides a dramatic and transparent historical example of the potential distorting effects of taxation. Imposed in England in , the tax—a kind of predecessor of the modern property tax—was levied on dwellings with the tax liability based on the number of windows. The tax led to efforts to reduce tax bills through such measures as the boarding up of windows and the construction of houses with very few windows.
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Email Address. Sign Up. In in England, William III introduced the infamous Window tax, taxing houses based on the number of windows they had. Houses with more than ten windows had to pay a steep ten shillings. Many houses bricked up their windows to reduce the number which caused health problems. After years, it was repealed in following campaigners branded it a "tax on health" and "tax on light and air".
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Punch Magazine celebrated its repeal with the cartoon shown above. What else did the government tax? How about newspapers and fireplaces. Search now on Ancestry for your Essex ancestors.
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