Author: INCOME TAX - FIRST DEMAND
Title: Tax Office...I do hereby give you Notice...granting certain Duties upon Income...you are charged as under: For One Year, ending the 5th April 1800...
Description: 1799. Blank income tax demand form, two up, one over the other, 245 x 190 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. A rare double blank income tax demand for the first tax in British history to be levied on people's incomes which was established under the government of William Pitt the Younger to cover the cost of the Napoleonic Wars. It was repealed in 1816 and income tax was not levied again until 1842 and has been a charge on income ever since.

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