Also related to buildings, but in this case to avoid taxation - in the UK there was a "window tax", designed to be a progressive tax (the wealthier you are, the

Also related to buildings, but in this case to avoid taxation - in the UK there was a "window tax", designed to be a progressive tax (the wealthier you are, the bigger your house, the more windows you have, the more tax you pay). To pay less tax, lots of people bricked up some of their windows so that the tax would go down without living in a smaller building. Now days that tax has been replaced in the UK by council tax, which is still progressive but based on house valuations rather than counting windows. You can still see some remnants of the tax avoidance, though, such as http://knowledgeoflondon.com/images/windowtax.jpg http://knowledgeoflondon.com/images/windowtax.jpg