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>'Priceless' 300-year-old coin that men had to buy to avoid Peter the Great's 'Beard Tax' How on earth does paying the tax to receive the token proving you hav
by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
>'Priceless' 300-year-old coin that men had to buy to avoid Peter the Great's 'Beard Tax'
How on earth does paying the tax to receive the token proving you have paid your tax amount to "avoiding Peter the Great's 'Beard Tax'"?
Maybe modern-day tax dodgers should try this clever scheme too. Avoiding tax by paying the tax they are trying to avoid.
- jpatokal 8y agoBad wording (surprise surprise, it's the Daily Mail), but they clearly mean that if you wanted to avoid having your beard forcibly shaved off, you had to pay the Beard Tax.