Tax Collection (page 4)

Book of Aids
Illuminated initial from the Book of Aids, temp Hen VI, a book recording feudal aid to knights Date: 15th century

The Domesday Book, Norfolk
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Norfolk, extract from the Little Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

A phase of our tax system - the greater the service, the heavier the tax. Illustration shows two men labeled Charity Worker addressing an oversized man sitting on a throne

Exhibition of recent fine prints Etchings, lithographs, wood engravings by artists in the Graphic Art Division of the Federal Art Project, WPA : For allocation to tax-supported public institutions

Public tax worker, Washington, D. C
Public tax worker, Washington, D.C. Date 1936 Jan

Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester
At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, this scene shows the Excisemen discovering the concealed barrels under an apple tree

Henry Thoreau with signature
1817-1862. American author, poet, naturalist, philosopher, abolitionist, tax resister, development critic, historian, surveyor and leading transcendentalist

Poll Tax demonstration, Central London
A Metropolitan Police officer in the middle of a peaceful crowd of demonstrators during the Poll Tax demonstrations in Central London

Revolution Game
A board game in which successive squares are incidents in the Revolution, such as the King coming to Paris and the abolition of the gabelle (the hated salt tax). Date: circa 1790

The receiver of taxes, 16th century
French citizens arrive to pay taxes to the tax receiver. Date: 16th Century

Harold Wilson and Eric Johnston
Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, and Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Wartime Food Production sticker in car windscreen, Churt
A wartime Food Production sticker of the County War Agricultural Committee in the windscreen of a car which drives the Committee to Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey. Date: circa 1930s

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man of finance - shark
Alls fish that comes. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man of finance from a shark. Shark fins have developed into a swallow-tail coat, his own tail into a pair of legs

The Old Labourers Last Job, picture and poem
An old man sits breaking stones while a workhouse looms behind. In the accompanying verse he bemoans his poverty, particularly at the hands of the Tories who have taxed our clothes and bread

Gandhi addresses followers at Dandi
Mahatma Gandhi, his cloak drawn over his head, his staff in his hand, addresses his followers at Dandi at the culmination of the Salt March or Satyagraha

Salt March
A scene of illegality : Gandhis followers picking up salt on the seashore at Dandi at the culmination of the Salt March in India to protest against the British tax on salt

Poor Rate Receipt, Kidderminster Union
A receipt for a poor rate payment by A Gristwood of the Borough of Bewdley to the Kidderminster Union in September 1923. The Unions operation was financed by the poor rate - the forerunner of

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Andorra
The tiny republic of Andorra, nestled in the mountains between France and Spain

Poultry, The City, London - looking toward the Mansion House

Mendi expedition, Sierra Leone. Palaver hut used as mess
A palaver hut at Mafweh in Sierra Leone, West Africa commandeered as a mess house by the West Indian Regiment during the Mendi expedition of 1898

Freetown, Sierra Leone, pictured in 1898 during the Hut Tax War, an insurrection by the native population which was put down by West Indian troops in what was known as the Mendi expedition

Mendi Expedition. The native method of firing a cannon
The native method of firing a cannon (lighting it and sprinting away) during the Mendi expedition in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1898

The Mendi Expedition. Boats bombarding enemy positions
Boats bombarding the enemys position on the River Jong in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the Mendi expedition where the 3rd battalion of the West Indian regiment were sent to suppress an uprising

Hut Tax War, Sierra Leone
A good specimen of a taxed hut, the subject of the Hut Tax War, an insurrection by the native population in pockets of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Frontier Police
Photograph of Sierra Leone frontier police who joined with the Mendi expedition of West Indian Regiment troops to put down the insurrection of the native population in what is known as the Hut Tax

Government House, Bonthe on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone
Government House, Bonthe, on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the time of the Mendi Expedition to quell the insurrection or Hut Tax War

On the march. Crossing a bridge during the Mendi expedition
Scene depicting troops of the West Indian regiment crossing a palm tree bridge during the Mendi expedition in Sierra Leone in 1898. Date: 1898

Forward
A grocer advises the new hand to add the date to the bill in these war tax times - a comment on the rising prices and taxes on goods during World War One

Pity the Poor Ratepayer
Pity the poor ratepayer - as he is presented with bills by Joseph Chamberlain and his colleagues for education and gas, poor rate, pin money and the Queens taxes

Sick of the Property Tax or ministerial influenza

Maillotin Riots, Paris
Paris rioters - calling themselves LES MAILLOTINS - attack tax-collectors and other perceived oppressors, looting and plundering in the name of reform

Sir Kingsley Wood (1881-1943)
Photograph of Sir Kingsley Wood, the Conservative MP, seen in 1938 - the year that he held the posts of Minister of Health and Secretary of State for Air

Armed Police Collect Tax
French Government officials seeking to make an inventory of church property meet resistance from peasants who regard it as an attack on the Church

Glove as Symbol - 6
Gloves displayed in a medieval market place were a symbol of the authority of the tax- collector to impose a levy on market transactions

Non-Smokers Attacked
When Austria imposes a tax on tobacco at Milano, Italy, many residents give up smoking in protest : the Austrians then attack those who refuse to smoke !

No Guinea Pigs / The Town before you, or welch wigs, or whimsicalities, or how to save the tax on Hair Powder

Road crash with glamorous lady
Humorous sketch of a road crash in which a glamourous lady and gentlemen sit beside their ditched car, with the gentleman proclaiming to the cars tax disc, Expiring December 31st..Liar!

Revolt at Gracia
At Gracia, near Barcelona in dissident Catalonia, fighting breaks out against insurgents protesting against the quintes tax

Revolt at Gracia 2
After the insurrection at Gracia against the quintes tax has been quelled, the inhabitants are instructed to light their homes

Tax Receipt 1802
Receipt for taxes paid by William Deedham, including Window Tax, Male Servant, Carriages & Horses, but no dog. All this set him back upwards of 23 pounds

Whiskey Rebellion
A tax collector is tarred and feathered in Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Rebellion against liquor tax

Tax / Invasion of Privacy
The government, caricatured as a devilish flying imp, invades privacy to assess peoples financial status

Medieval Beer Tax / France
The Bishop of Tournai, Belgium, receiving the Tithe of beer granted by King Chilperic

Window Tax Repeal / 1850
A Vision Of The Repeal Of The Window Tax Family welcomes Sunlight as windows are unblocked on repeal of tax

London match workers protesting against tax
When London match workers protest against a proposed tax on matches, police break up the demonstration with unnecessary violence

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