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
I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant like CinemaScope. The artwork for "I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant" was not completed before the comic changed size to A4 so every page had to include a banner across the top of each page. The premise is a parody of the 1957 horror film "I Was a Teenage Werewolf". A rebel biker called Jimmy Root is bitten by rabid tax consultant. Afterwards, whenever there is a full moon, Jimmy transforms into a nerdish tax consultant who harangues people in a complicated legalese about their finances. After a number of transformations and a visit to an institution dedicated to grotesque