THE WINDOW TAX
OLD ENGLISH IMPOST. How many housewives, as they open the windows of their homes in the morning, know that, years ago in England, when glass was a luxury of the wealthy, glass windows had a tax placed on them, and householders paid a tax according to the number of windows in their homes? This tax was not abolished until the year 1851.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 8
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65THE WINDOW TAX Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 8
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