BABY TAX
Taxpayers ■ tpda'y. are fortunate cdn> pared with those'; who; paid ' leyies of Budgets in olden days' '(states the "Cape"Times!')Vv,'"';'•■'"'.;'..''■■'"::':>."^ ,••>"■'.
, At one time; in Engjari4-.a-))aby!tax :__ was imposed which ewry;.person hot receiving poor relief'Had:'to-'pay on. a graduated '. scale,-: -Recording {■ to his station in life;rwhenever ihfere',was an addition to. his' family, '-^'i?- <•■:■•'
During the reign'pf George-51 thfere was a;tax on coffins'. EvenMaeards w^re taxed in Queen: Elizabeth's "time—3s; 4d a chin. At the end of the eighteenth" ( century there was a""tiirie" tax—ss'on : every clock within or outside' a ( house, 10s on a gold'watch, and !7s- 6d or> a
silver one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 18
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99BABY TAX Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 18
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