UK

Magna Carta, signed in 1215, limited the power of King John to impose taxes without consent. Clause ...

The window tax was introduced in England in 1696 as a property tax based on the number of windows in...

The poll tax, or head tax, was a fixed tax per person regardless of income. The poll tax of 1381 hel...

Her Majestys Revenue and Customs was formed in 2005 from the merger of the Inland Revenue and Custom...

Tallage was a royal tax in medieval England levied on towns, cities, and royal demesne lands. Unlike...

Danegeld was a tax collected in Anglo Saxon England to pay Danish invaders to stop raiding. The firs...

Stamp duty was introduced in England in 1694 to pay for the war against France. The tax was charged ...

British income tax was introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1799 to fund the Nap...

UK inheritance tax, currently at 40 percent on estates over 325,000, was introduced in its modern fo...

In 2012, Reuters revealed that Starbucks had paid just 8.6 million in UK corporation tax over 13 yea...

The Diverted Profits Tax, commonly known as the Google Tax, was introduced in the UK in 2015. The ta...

The UK mansion tax was a proposed annual tax on properties worth over 2 million, advocated by the Li...

The Domesday Book was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086. The surve...

Scutage, or shield money, was a tax paid by knights in lieu of military service. Under the feudal sy...

The hearth tax, or chimney money, was introduced in England in 1662 by Charles II. The tax charged 2...

The UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy, commonly called the sugar tax, was introduced in 2018. The tax cha...