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Article: Your Money: Many happy (tax) returns! Two hundred years of income tax may not be everyone's idea of something to celebrate, yet 100 people a day are visiting the Revenue's birthday exhibition. Paul Slade reports
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 12, 1998
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When it comes to those aspects of modern life worth celebrating,
few people would raise a cheer for income tax. But now that the tax
has reached its 200th birthday, the Inland Revenue is throwing a
party.
Despite its site in the mid-basement level of Somerset House, the
Revenue's Bicentenary of Income Tax exhibition is pulling in about
100 visitors a day. Attractions include the Tax Trivia game, and a
chance to review all your favourite self-assessment TV commercials.
The exhibition is aimed at everyone, from parties of
schoolchildren to tax professionals. Nigel East, one of the
organisers, says: "The history of income tax is really just the
history of Great Britain, and the exhibition ...