Mudcat Café message #1644844

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Thread #87893 Message #1644844
Posted By: Abby Sale
09-Jan-06 - 08:54 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Jan 9 (Income tax)
Subject: happy? – Jan 9 (Income tax)

One of Britain's great inventions,
the 1st income tax was introduced on 1/9/1799


          Oh what wonders what novels in this age there be,
          And the man that lives longest the most he will see;
          For fifty years back, pray what man would have thought,
          That a tax upon income would be brought
              Sing, tantara rara new tax.
  
                  "The Income Tax," (a broadside) A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer