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WINDOW TAX , a tax first levied in See also:England in the See also:year 1697 for the purpose of defraying the expenses and making up the deficiency arising from clipped and defaced See also:coin in the recoinage of See also:silver during the reign of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III. It was an assessed tax on the rental value of the See also:house, levied according to the number of windows and openings on houses having more than six windows and See also:worth more than £5 per annum. Owing to the method of See also:assessment the tax See also:fell with See also:peculiar hardship on the See also:middle classes, and to this See also:day traces of the endeavours to lighten its See also:burden may be seen in numerous bricked-up windows.
The See also:revenue derived from the tax in the first year of its See also:levy amounted to £1,200,000. The tax was increased no fewer than six times between 1747 and 1808, but was reduced in 1823. There was a strong agitation in favour of the abolition of the tax during the See also:winter of 1850-1851, and it was accordingly repealed on the 24th of See also:July 1851, and a tax on inhabited houses substituted. The tax contributed £1,856,000 to the imperial revenue the year before its See also:repeal. There were in England in that year about 6000 houses having fifty windows and upwards; about 275,000 having ten windows and upwards, and about 725,000 having seven windows or less.
In See also:France there is still a tax on doors and windows, and this forms an appreciable amount of the revenue.
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