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For example, in England, King John introduced an export tax on wool in 1203 and King Edward I introduced taxes on wine in 1275. Also in England, a Poor Law tax was established in 1572 to help the deserving poor, and then changed from a local tax to a national tax by the Poor Relief Act 1601 . [ 1 ]
In 2006–2007 council tax in England amounted to £22.4 billion [54] and an additional £10.8 billion in sales, fees and charges. [55] [needs update]. In Scotland from April 2024, all but three of the Scottish local councils introduced a 100% "additional levy" on second homes.
A similar tax also existed in France from 1798 to 1926. There was a strong agitation in England in favour of the abolition of the tax during the winter of 1850–51, and it was accordingly repealed on 24 July 1851, and a tax on inhabited houses substituted. [14] The Scottish and Irish window taxes were abolished at the same time. [15]
The revenues from the traditional sources of taxation declined in later medieval England, and a series of experiments in poll taxes began: [15] in 1377 a flat-rate tax, in 1379 a graduated tax. [16] By 1381, the unpopularity of these taxes had contributed to the Peasants' Revolt .
The history of the English fiscal system affords the best known example of continuous financial development in terms of both institutions and methods. Although periods of great upheaval occurred from the time of the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the 20th century, the line of connection is almost entirely unbroken.
A separate Board of Stamps was created by the Stamps Act 1694.During the 18th and early 19th centuries at various times (as financial strains on the economy demanded, and Parliament allowed) stamp duties were extended above a certain threshold of sale value to cover newspapers, pamphlets, lottery tickets, apprentices' indentures, advertisements, playing cards, dice, hats, gloves, patent ...
Popular tax resistance was directed both against the toppling monarchy and against the governments that would try to replace it. [3]: 139–53 War taxes were levied before and after French revolutionary troops occupied the German Rhineland and the Southern Netherlands during the War of the First Coalition. Churches and monasteries were taxed ...
Pages in category "History of taxation in the United Kingdom" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .