window tax

British  

noun

1. history a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851

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window tax

I cannot tell you how uninterested I was in the window tax, which was another of his favourite subjects.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2019

Rich people have bigger houses and therefore more windows - that was the theory behind England's 1696 window tax .

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2016

Britain had a window tax in the late 17th century, well before it introduced an income tax.

From Economist ● Jun. 27, 2013

That bleached-out look has become so ubiquitous on AMC that it’s almost as if there were a premium on bright color, like the window tax that drove 18th-century homeowners to brick up their buildings.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2011

The burdensome house and window tax, amounting to over half a million annually, should be taken off.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir