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Hearing that somewhere there's a tax on how many windows a housing has, I was confused and immediately rushed to search more about this weirdness. Don't know a
by drdaeman 11y ago
Hearing that somewhere there's a tax on how many windows a housing has, I was confused and immediately rushed to search more about this weirdness.
Don't know about correctness, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax says France got this until 1926, so it must be somewhat before the age of modern omnipresent advertising.
- mc32 11y agoI lived with a family there over a summer, not sure if they were just telling me stories or not, but my impression from their story is they boarded up some of their windows to avoid taxes. Maybe it was an excuse, i don't know. A nice tale they liked to tell a foreigner.
- sean-duffy 11y agoIn the UK it's fairly common to see windows that have been bricked up on old buildings because of window tax. E.g. http://www.davidwallphoto.com/gallery/Other/London_England/IEng278.jpg http://www.davidwallphoto.com/gallery/Other/London_England/I...
- pflanze 11y agoInteresting. Reminds me of Montreal's external stairs[]; oddly I still haven't found a historically backed (citations, research) account of why it has them. [] e.g. https://chicagomontreal.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/les-escaliers-de-montreal/ https://chicagomontreal.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/les-escalie...