Proof that the powers that be aren’t always sane and will tax whatever they like
Fuck off with that shitty yank voice over bollocks
Somebody should tell them the Brits are gone.
London England has windows all bricked up too for tax avoidance also
A myth.
Dermot Bannon would have been screwed back then.
Also, this is why the windows get smaller the higher up you go. Rich people could afford large windows, and lived on the ground floor. Their servants lived on the top floor with smaller windows.
That tiktok account is actually very good and quite informative
Tell you what tho that Voice could do with some daylight fecking off
I find this hard to believe.
I can’t stand that fucking automated voice
Wasn’t this debunked before?
Sounds like feckin skyrim
I had read before that this is the same reason why the bank on Dame St. has no windows, despite having fixtures for them.
The whole “Daylight Robbery” thing is cute, but apocryphal when you consider that it’s just so obvious where the phrase actually comes from.
There was a chimney tax too. The more chimneys, the more tax. Some stately homes had fake chimneys, as more were seen as a sign of status/wealth. Not sure if it applied to homes here, but was definitely a thing in GB.
That first shot is my dentist!
It happened in Scotland too.
I’m fairly sure window taxes were also imposed in England as well.
Keeping all gorgeous Georgian Dublin as commercial premises should be criminalised. A Massive fucking waste.
Stick those offices somewhere else
Absolutely disgraceful Joe
If you are wondering why only one or two windows it’s because 10 windows was the limit for mid tier tax, and then 20 for top tier, way back when it started.
I read a story about this in a book called Read At Home
Amateurs, we had window tax in wales from 1696. It’s akin to Local Property Tax these days, a tax essentially based on the value of your house. It was assumed the more valuable, the more windows you have (size didn’t matter). So yes, it was a Kingdom wide thing, not just to penalise Ireland, and now we pay other ‘equivalent’ taxes instead, just without the loophole of bricking up a window.
Why is there music from The elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion playing?
Wonder if that’s what happened to Leinster Market Street?
That automated voice. I’m choking on my own rage here!
And here I was thinking ‘Daylight Robbery’ referred to someone who has the absolute balls to rob your house in the middle of the day with everyone out and about.
Jesus that fucking voice.
Fuck TikTok, and that fucking voice.
isn’t bill gates plan to block out the sun kind of similar? seriously some country had to take action to stop him
The main dissonance about that chirpy voice is that its always talking about something horrific
It’s almost a morbid fascination. It’s got to be describing mangled corpses as if it’s asking you if you want your coffee ‘to go’
That’s interesting and all but fuck tiktok and fuck that robo voice.
Window tax?
Dont give the current gov any more ideas. Delete this now!
Did the woman from the Swappie ad get a new job or something?
American Dreammm
Best country in the worl
Fuck the video, fuck the voice.
It’s all about the elder scrolls music…
Same in Scotland
How this shite got a 1000 upvotes
Oh my God.
Someone please fucking explain to me how a fucking person takes the time to type a bunch of bullshit but can’t be assed to fucking speak the fucking words themselves.
I am way too angry at an AI voice.
Is this the Internet now?
Interesting. Would it be possible for those windows to be opened up now (from a legal perspective)? I imagine that it’s complicated given how old these buildings are.
u/savevideo
I assume this tax is no longer on the books. Why are the windows still bricked up?
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Proof that the powers that be aren’t always sane and will tax whatever they like
Fuck off with that shitty yank voice over bollocks
Somebody should tell them the Brits are gone.
London England has windows all bricked up too for tax avoidance also
A myth.
Dermot Bannon would have been screwed back then.
Also, this is why the windows get smaller the higher up you go. Rich people could afford large windows, and lived on the ground floor. Their servants lived on the top floor with smaller windows.
That tiktok account is actually very good and quite informative
Tell you what tho that Voice could do with some daylight fecking off
I find this hard to believe.
I can’t stand that fucking automated voice
Wasn’t this debunked before?
Sounds like feckin skyrim
I had read before that this is the same reason why the bank on Dame St. has no windows, despite having fixtures for them.
The whole “Daylight Robbery” thing is cute, but apocryphal when you consider that it’s just so obvious where the phrase actually comes from.
There was a chimney tax too. The more chimneys, the more tax. Some stately homes had fake chimneys, as more were seen as a sign of status/wealth. Not sure if it applied to homes here, but was definitely a thing in GB.
That first shot is my dentist!
It happened in Scotland too.
I’m fairly sure window taxes were also imposed in England as well.
Keeping all gorgeous Georgian Dublin as commercial premises should be criminalised. A Massive fucking waste.
Stick those offices somewhere else
Absolutely disgraceful Joe
If you are wondering why only one or two windows it’s because 10 windows was the limit for mid tier tax, and then 20 for top tier, way back when it started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
This myth has been debunked years ago.
I read a story about this in a book called Read At Home
Amateurs, we had window tax in wales from 1696. It’s akin to Local Property Tax these days, a tax essentially based on the value of your house. It was assumed the more valuable, the more windows you have (size didn’t matter). So yes, it was a Kingdom wide thing, not just to penalise Ireland, and now we pay other ‘equivalent’ taxes instead, just without the loophole of bricking up a window.
Why is there music from The elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion playing?
Wonder if that’s what happened to Leinster Market Street?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/pji6sr/leinster_market_a_side_street_long_since_closed/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
That automated voice. I’m choking on my own rage here!
And here I was thinking ‘Daylight Robbery’ referred to someone who has the absolute balls to rob your house in the middle of the day with everyone out and about.
Jesus that fucking voice.
Fuck TikTok, and that fucking voice.
isn’t bill gates plan to block out the sun kind of similar? seriously some country had to take action to stop him
The main dissonance about that chirpy voice is that its always talking about something horrific
It’s almost a morbid fascination. It’s got to be describing mangled corpses as if it’s asking you if you want your coffee ‘to go’
That’s interesting and all but fuck tiktok and fuck that robo voice.
Window tax?
Dont give the current gov any more ideas. Delete this now!
Did the woman from the Swappie ad get a new job or something?
American Dreammm
Best country in the worl
Fuck the video, fuck the voice.
It’s all about the elder scrolls music…
Same in Scotland
How this shite got a 1000 upvotes
Oh my God.
Someone please fucking explain to me how a fucking person takes the time to type a bunch of bullshit but can’t be assed to fucking speak the fucking words themselves.
I am way too angry at an AI voice.
Is this the Internet now?
Interesting. Would it be possible for those windows to be opened up now (from a legal perspective)? I imagine that it’s complicated given how old these buildings are.
u/savevideo
I assume this tax is no longer on the books. Why are the windows still bricked up?