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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vincent Montefusco, post: 196421, member: 2188&quot;]Windows were also taxed as glass was extremely expensive so if you had lots of windows you were obviously rich. It is why it is still possible to see lots of large old houses where the windows are bricked up, to avoid the tax. Income tax was first brought in to fund the Napoleonic War and levied at 6d in the pound (there were 240 pennies to the pound in those days). It proved to be such a lucrative tax that the British government kept it after the war had ended.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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