Income tax was introduced into Great Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798.

Broadside Ballads Online from the Bodleian Collection

Ballad Work - Roud Number: V12856
Titles: That income tax! A popular parody on "Those evening bells"

That income tax - that income tax!
How every clause my brain it racks
How dear was that time to me,
Ere first I heard of schedule B.

Those untaxed joys are passed away
And many a heart that then was gay,
Is sleeping 'neath the turf in packs,
And cares not for the Income Tax.

And so 'twill be when I am gone,
That candid Peel will still tax on,
And other bards shall sadly ax,
Why not repeal that Income tax.