Hearth tax significant proportion of householders were not liable to pay at all. The hearth tax was much resented because it often entailed inspection of the interior of dwellings by the sub-collectors and petty constables, who had legal authority to enter every property to check on the number of hearths. Some people stopped up their chimneys so that the tax was not due on them, but where this was discovered by the assessors the tax was doubled. On 31 July 1684, a fire in Churchill, Oxfordshire, destroyed 20 houses and many other buildings, and killed four people. It was apparently caused by
A Collection of Goodies (Special Tax Edition) A Collection of Goodies (Special Tax Edition) "A Collection of Goodies (Special Tax Edition)" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series "The Goodies". The episode was written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. The Goodies attempt to save money by inventing claims on a Tax Evasion Form. The episode then sees Graeme's computer recalling the claims from the form. Once the claim has gone through, the Goodies perform to make money, but make nothing and then discover that they have been in the queue to the local unemployment office. The special used new