UK residents now have to pay dozens of different taxes, none of which existed 100 years ago.
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- Full FactThis isn’t correct. Income tax and levies on beer, tobacco and petrol have existed for more than a century, as well as a precursor to inheritance tax. Some of the taxes listed as modern-day taxes don’t exist in the UK.
2025-07-31
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