I’ll give my shiniest nickel to whoever can tell me if and when a land tax started being enforced.
Give your nickel to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
Tl;dr: 6000 BCE in ancient Iraq. It predates money, so they’d pay in whatever they used the land for.
Same reason Howl’s castle moves.
You wouldn’t think it from that gloomy picture but Ambleside is a really nice town. Top visit!
I assumed that was just how the UK looked most of the time.
There is the occasional day or two a year where the sun has been observed…
I actually like seeing people live versions of my dream, cuz at least somebody is lol.
This ^
Honestly. Jelousy is one thing, seeking to destroy someone out of it is another. It’e better to become friends, and see if you can learn something from them. Or perhaps network for luck.
This is why very old houses in Louisiana had no closets - your property tax was assessed on the basis of how many closets you had. Also, they liked spelling “armoire”.
In many places it was based on the number of windows, or on the width of the street facing façade… leading to odd styles of construction. It’s been a game of cat and mouse for quite some time.
Someone explain to me how this tax loophole works…I need to know.
Looks like no land tax because the house is not on land. The river undoubtedly is town/city property, so taxation of the land wouldn’t work.
Pro tip: build your house in an alternate dimension, and no one will make you pay taxes; although the commute is somewhat inconvenient.
A Douglas Adams tier comment. Congratulations.
So… Did it work? Asking for a friend
There were loads of bridge houses in the UK.
you could probably pull this off with a boat nowadays.
No property tax on a boat but property tax on my '94 Corolla? What kinda damn bullshit…
i cant even sleep on my old bike, and i still have property tax to pay for it.
Not that this is one, but the medieval bridges with houses either side of the street would probably look super cool these days :3
They would look super cool? They do look super cool!
True :3… I just wasn’t aware of any that weren’t demolished x3
There’s also one in Florence, Italy.
And Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England.
London bridge used to be a big version of this
You guys should try visiting Florence, Italy.
Before it fell down?
Before it burned
Burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
Don’t we all ?
I think it’s retired to Arizona at this point
Lake Havasu City!
BUT, the second bridge we built…
The bridge town is pretty cool, until the Tenosians show up and throw the nobles off of it.
~Reference ~
It was very common to build on bridges in European cities. Seeing the river was rare. There are a few subsisting examples, but most houses are gone.
