what was the first thing to be taxed in england?

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but the Window's Tax was an early one - the more windows your house had, the more you paid.

Answer 2

All tenants and surfs had to pay tithes to the lord of their particular part of the country. However the first real tax was the window tax. Hence so many (still) bricked up windows still to be seen on houses.. There bye setting a trend for tax evasion that has never ended.

Answer 3

In the UK, the first instance of taxation being deducted out of a person's income before they had even received the money (called being deducted at source) happened in 1512. It was in 1803 that the schedules of income tax were introduced and they have been largely unchanged ever since

Answer 4

There definitely was a tax on the length of your shoes at some point in the Middle Ages. I think people should be taxed on how loud they choose to play their ipods when you are sitting next to them. Inconsiderate gits.

Answer 5

Landowners taxed people who lived on their land and roads have been taxed since before anyone can remember. I think roads is probably the answer. Toll booths existed on the roads of Britain as far back as Roman times. (Although they weren't booths then obviously)

Answer 6

I seemto remember something about glass (windows), but I am sure that land must have taxed for the kings to get rich long before that.

Answer 7

One of the first was the tithe land owners paid to the churches or abbeys, they had to pay them a 10th of their annual income.

Answer 8

Crops , wheat , corn , etc , each farm had to give a percentage of its yield to its local governing body .

Answer 9

I think Eve charged Adam 50 quid each time

Answer 10

freedom