Talk:Window tax
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Re. the French tax and its inverse affect. Aside from the word order, inverse of what? The ostentatious over use of windows or the miserly bricking up of windows? Hard to know.
I looked here after I read this brief mention: "Some of the 'vital sayings' were good comments on matters of current interest, like the late Christopher Nevinson's: 'architects must be constantly reminded that there is no longer a tax upon windows.' " Megroz, R. L., "Pre-War Wisdom," Italic textThirty-One Bedside EssaysItalic text, Port Washington, NY/London: Kennikat Press, 1951, 1970
Your chronology means under December 31:
- *1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
What is correct? --172.178.100.63 15:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Windows Tax
It is worth referring to this discussion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windows Tax) given that the section in this article doesn't seem much better that what was previously described.--Jrsnbarn 12:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- It seems bizarre to merge the two articles since Windows tax and window tax are such totally different things. I don't think any other encyclopedia would consider grouping them in the same article. The decision, as you have pointed out, was to delete the stuff about Microsoft and to make Window tax redirect to here.If the Microsoft stuff goes anywhere it should be with criticisms of Microsoft...but they don't seem to want it either. Bluewave 13:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- I would certainly be in favour of either reinstating Windows Tax as it's own article, or simply replacing the body of the section with a note as to the meaning of Windows Tax and a reference to Criticisms of Microsoft.--Jrsnbarn 15:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Further citations needed
I've added in some notes asking for further reliable citations - a friend with some knowledge of the history of architecture of Edinburgh said the tax was relative negligible and house were missing windows for architectural reasons, not financial ones. Some details of how much tax was levied and how it was assessed would also help this article, I feel. Qwghlm (talk) 00:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
