One of Britain's great inventions,
the 1st income tax was
introduced
on 1/9/1799
Oh what wonders what novels in this age there be,
And the man that lives longest the most he will see;
For fifty years back, pray what man would have thought,
That a tax upon income would be brought.
Sing, tantara rara new tax.
"The Income Tax," (broadside) A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer
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