Window Tax

24th July 1851

Window Tax is abolished in the United Kingdom

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Window tax, was a tax based on the number of window's in a house.

It was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in England, France, and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries.

To avoid the tax, some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces ~ ready to be glazed or reglazed at a later date.

The tax was introduced in England and Wales in 1696, under King William III.

When the window tax was introduced, it consisted of two parts: a flat-rate house tax of two shillings per house, and a variable tax for the number of windows above ten, in the house.

Properties with between ten and twenty windows paid an extra four shillings, and those above twenty windows, paid an extra eight shillings.

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strong agitation in England in favour of the abolition of the tax during the winter of 1850–51, and it was accordingly repealed on 24th July 1851, and a tax on inhabited houses substituted.

The Scottish window tax was also abolished at the same time.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

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