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Taxation in the 14th Century : (Y49) GRA - Spartacus Educational In 1378, John of Gaunt led an expedition to France, but returned three months later without success The following year, John of Gaunt asked parliament to impose another poll tax Parliament decided that it was going to be a graduated tax, which meant that the richer you were, the more tax you paid
Poll Tax of 1379 - Wikipedia The second parliament of Richard II granted in 1378 a tax of one fifteenth and a half on movables without cities and boroughs and one tenth and a half within It also continued the previous customs on wool and merchandise a year longer
Urban Identity and the Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 - JSTOR The poll taxes provide a unique record of the economic and demographic structure of a number of urban communities at a specific moment in time The patterns observed may be set alongside equivalent observations derived from rural sources
Middle Ages Poll Tax - ExploreGenealogy The Poll Tax was actually one form of what was called a lay subsidy - a tax paid by all non-churchmen on movable property to help fund the army in times of war
England Poll Taxes - International Institute • FamilySearch The poll tax was re-introduced in 1990 as the Community Charge but, as in the 14th century, evasion and riots ensued and it disappeared three years later This poll tax was partly responsible for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s downfall
Poll taxes of 1376–1381 - Wikipedia The Poll taxes of 1376–1381 was a series of three poll taxes in the Kingdom of England between 1376 and 1381 that was credited with leading up to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381
Poll Tax - HouseofNames The first poll tax was levied in 1377 by King Richard II to raise necessary monies for military expeditions on the continent This first poll tax was a flat fee of one groat (four pence) on each person and essentially an experiment to raise funds