william pitt introduces a tax on windows

[unblock]

no, not microsoft windows -- those glass bits that let you see into, er, i mean, out of, houses.

and no, not our william pitt ....

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/18/pf/taxes/strangetaxesupdate/index.htm

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - History is littered with odd tax schemes. William Pitt the Younger introduced a tax on windows in Britain. Peter the Great taxed souls, and Nero, urine.

Let no man say that we here in America cannot compete for oddity of tax laws. We have some really weird assessments on the books.

In certain states and cities, you'll pay special taxes for buying a deck of cards, possessing illegal drugs, and, possibly, buying things from naked people.

Here are a dozen peculiar state and local taxes, as noted by tax information publisher CCH Inc. and the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit tax policy research group.

[chicagojoe]

1. There is talk of taxing boob jobs and haircuts.

[cheezus]

2. you pay the "windows tax" whenever you buy a new PC

because everyone knows that if you buy a PC without an operating system, you're just going to steal windows to run on it.

[benddem]

3. In Germany

you are taxed for closets. Hence people use shranks (furniture that acts as a closet.
In Scotland looking at my ancestors census reports I noted that the number of Windows in the house are noted on the census.

[candy]

4. Frankly I'd rather those shranks than a closet---

more adaptable for changing around a room and more floor space w/o closets.

I always called them wardrobes,but shranks works for me.