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While we hear a lot about tax avoidance and tax evasion today, I think it is something we always have had and probably always will. To be clear avoidance is using legal means, evasion is the illegal one.<\/p>\n
I can recall as a young kid being told by my father that old houses had less or smaller windows due to a window tax \u2013 see here https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/education\/resources\/georgian-britain-age-modernity\/window-tax\/<\/a>. Or here is another example, a curved brick wall which used less bricks \u2013 and it\u2019s also quite nice to look at https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/historicengland_have-you-ever-heard-of-a-crinkle-crankle-activity-7169587666236215296-EIqu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios<\/a><\/p>\n Both of these examples essentially reacted to higher taxes to reduce the amount of tax payable \u2013 something we still do today, well at least corporates and high wealth individuals do.<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>\n