window-tax

It imposed a house-tax, withdrew the bonus to agriculturists, repealed the window-tax, but re-demanded the income-tax for three years.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

In addition to the bars, there was a wire grating in front of the window, which, moreover, was at the top of the house; but, then, the two windows beneath it had been economically bricked up, in order to avoid an accumulation of the window-tax.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

Perhaps our fathers instituted the custom, to be as unlike the British as possible, -- as they did of making their houses like lanterns, to show they had no window-tax to pay.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

He also proposed to abolish the window-tax, but to introduce a house-tax in its stead.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Since the imposition of the window-tax, however, the rents of houses have upon the whole risen, more or less, in almost every town and village of Great Britain, with which I am acquainted.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

The natural tendency of the window-tax, and of all other taxes upon houses, is to lower rents.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

A house of ten pounds rent in a country town may sometimes have more windows than a house of five hundred pounds rent in London; and though the inhabitant of the former is likely to be a much poorer man than that of the latter, yet so far as his contribution is regulated by the window-tax, he must contribute more to the support of the state.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

Such has been almost everywhere the increase of the demand for houses, that it has raised the rents more than the window-tax could sink them; one of the many proofs of the great prosperity of the country, and of the increasing revenue of its inhabitants.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

This tax was afterwards repealed, and in the room of it was established the window-tax, which has undergone too several alterations and augmentations.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

It was a very small, grey house, standing at a corner of the village street, with a small garden round it, presenting a curious blank and one-eyed aspect, from the fact that every window that could be spared, and they were not abundant to start with, had been blocked up on account of the window-tax.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891