Taxation Collection

Santa caught by the tax inspector by H. M. Bateman
A rather surprised looking Father Christmas, who has arrived at the house of a tax inspector to innocently deliver toys on Christmas Eve, finds himself caught by a vigilant tax inspector. H.M

Boston Tea Party 1773
Boston citizens, dressed as Indians, board English ships and throw tea chests into the harbour in protest against taxation

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

The Domesday Book, Surrey
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Surrey, including Guildford, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

Key figures behind tariff reform from Birmingham area
The key figures behind tariff reform from the Birmingham area. Tariff Reform introduced by Joseph and Austen Chamberlain in 1903

18th Century Taxation
Satire on the taxes with which people were burdened in the latter 18th century

Jonathan Thatcher riding cow to Stockport Market
Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to Stockport Market on 27 November 1784 in defiance of Pitts Horse Tax. 1784

America - The Stamp Act - Burning the Stamps
American Colonists burn papers bearing the Stamps required under The Stamp Act of March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists

Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as dentist
Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as a dentist who has just extracted an eleven million pound tooth - And this is what you call painless dentistry, is it, William? 1885

Inland revenue envelope, c. 1920s
An prepaid envelope for the collection of income tax, addressed Inverness, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

America - The Stamp Act - Celebrating the repeal of the Act of March 22, 1765 in May 1766 with The Liberty-Pole Festival. The Liberty Pole was known to be a symbol of dissent against Great Britain

Men in Customs and Excise Training Centre
Men at work in the Customs and Excise Training Centre. 1946

The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of England, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: circa 1085

The Tune we Dance to - Pacifism - Society of Friends
" The Money Goes Round and Around... And it comes out here!" Pay your income tax and it ends up being fired from a gun. Pacifist postcard published by the Society of Friends (Quakers)

Pro-Suffrage Propaganda Mrs Poyser. Mrs. Poyser holds a No Taxation without Representation banner and stands outside the Houses of Parliament. Date: circa 1909

Norwich Jews on 13th century Exchequer Roll, a list of tax payments made by Jewish people in Norwich, Norfolk Date: 13th century

Cartoon, The Treasury -- a commentary on British politicians attempting to balance the books through cutbacks and taxes. late 18th century

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author. Outline of his policies in an election leaflet as suffragist candidate in the Wimbledon By-Election, 1907. Date: 1907

Cartoon, Grandpas advice, WW1
Cartoon, Grandpas advice. An old soldier thinks there should be a tax on umbrellas. Date: 1917

Cartoon, New taxes on dogs, WW1
Cartoon, New taxes on dogs (to help pay for the ongoing war). Women discuss a man who has replaced his dog with a goldfish in order to avoid paying the tax, and is taking it for a walk. Date: 1917

Sir Massey Lopes
SIR MASSEY LOPES Statesman and agriculturist " Local Taxation" Date: 1818 - 1908

Cartoon, Explanation, WW1
Cartoon, Explanation. Three old age pensioners outside a restaurant discuss earnings and taxation. The plump man says he pays no taxes because he spends all his money on food. Date: 1916

Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray

Tea Party Tablet, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where Griffins Wharf used to be, commemorating the event of 6 December 1773 when chests of tea were thrown into the sea in response to the British tax

Suffragette March Christabel Pankhurst. A deputation led by Christabel Pankhurst, October 7th, 1911, with banner stating, Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny Date: 1911

Suffragette Go Hang Yourselves. Two women view a campaigner for the franchise as So Un-Ladylike!! The suffragist with banners reading No taxation Without Representation and 190

Greetings from Nevada, USA, the one sound state -- no retail sales tax, no corporation tax, no state income tax, no inheritance tax, no thumb tax. Date: 1940

Gentleman storming out of a meeting with the Taxman
Gentleman storming out of a meeting with a (rather odious and bureaucratic-looking Taxman - " And Thats That!" Date: circa 1940s

The Octroi - Sketch in Paris by Phil May. The Octroi was a local consumption tax, so this gentleman is seemingly the tax collector. Date: 1898

Receipt for a donation to the Chamberlain Birthday Fund
Receipt for a donation of 3 Shillings to the Chamberlain Birthday Fund - to be passed to Joseph Chamberlain to further any cause he wished, ultimately his continuing support for Tariff Reform

Coment on Tariff Reform in regard to bread
The Tarriff Reform League (TRL) wanted to see the British Empire transformed into a single trading bloc, to compete with Germany and the United States

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

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

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

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

The Domesday Book, Wiltshire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Wiltshire and Dorset, spread extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Domesday Book

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

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

The Domesday Book, Birmingham
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Warwickshire including the village of Birmingham, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

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

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

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