window tax
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 year 1850 was memorable for the repeal of the window tax, one of the most extraordinary impositions which ever crossed the inventive mind of a Chancellor of the Exchequer.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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