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window tax

noun

  1. history a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As little light as possible was admitted into the house in order to save the window-tax.

The strong light and heat of the sun has the effect of a window-tax in limiting the size and number of the windows.

They include the land tax,19 the personal and habitation tax (contribution personnelle-mobilire), and door and window tax.

By the withdrawal of the window tax in 1851 obvious and necessary advantages were gained in the building of houses.

The window-tax was originally a device of the statesmen of the Revolution for making good the deficiency of the clipped money.

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