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Tax history quiz: the answers

17 December 2008
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(Dates not expected but given to help tracing.)

  1. William III in 1689 because it hit the poor and exposed houses to be searched.
  2. To deter smuggling in his first budget 1784.
  3. William Pitt on servants male and female 1785.
  4. To replace many old duties payable to different funds with a new tariff all payable to the Consolidated Fund 1787.
  5. The tax on owning clocks and watches 1797 1798.
  6. Pitt said that an MP George Tierney was obstructing the war effort in 1798. 
  7. Disraeli discovered that in 1832 Bessemer had invented putting movable dates in embossed stamps.
  8. Disraeli changed the assessed tax on dogs to a licence duty in 1867.
  9. ...

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