A hearth tax was a property tax in certain countries during the medieval and early modern period, levied on each hearth, thus by proxy on wealth. It was...

Look up hearth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hearth (/hɑːrθ/) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating...

in Europe from the 1600s to avoid taxes. Bedroom tax Brick tax Glass tax Hearth tax Wallpaper tax "Scottish window tax costs revealed". bbc.co.uk. 18 July...

Aquitaine. Prince Edward persuaded the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearth tax of ten sous for five years in 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret...

government to abandon the poll tax after 1698. Far more controversial was the hearth tax introduced by the Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662 (14...

Taxes on the same principle include hearth tax, brick tax, and wallpaper tax. Excise is levied at the point of manufacture; in the case of hearth tax...

Yorkshire’’ Ian Morris, ed. Morris, Faull, Stinson – Phillimore, 1992 Hearth Tax Online, Roehampton University, 2010 Archived 19 September 2012 at the...

was an English politician, who is best remembered as the sponsor of the hearth tax, which earned him the jeering nickname "Sir Chimney Pole". He was the...

paper and having it hand stenciled. The tax was abolished in 1836. Brick tax Glass tax Hearth tax Window tax Notes UK Retail Price Index inflation figures...

May 2014 Harrington, D (1999), Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664 CKS: Q/RTh (PDF), Centre for Hearth Tax Research, archived (PDF) from the original...