What happened in the 1690s?
🛤️ Window Tax Introduced in England (1696) - A form of property tax based on the number of windows in a house, leading to architectural changes to avoid the tax.
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Further Reading
Window Tax - UK Parliament (parliament.uk)
Window tax - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Window tax - The National Archives (gov.uk)
The Window Tax - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (lincolninst.edu)
The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden (aeaweb.org)
Window Tax: So They Bricked-Up the Windows - RuralHistoria (ruralhistoria.com)
The Window Tax - Adam Smith Institute (adamsmith.org)
A Tax on Light and Air: The European Window Tax - Wasatch Shutter (wasatchshutter.com)