Will tax tear apart the United Kingdom?
A protest in favour of Scottish independence, 2019 Credit: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP “It is impossible to be sure of anything,” Benjamin Franklin declared, “except death and taxes.” No doubt. But does one want to read a book about either? Taxes often determine history. In 1765, the Stamp Act, taxing the American colonists, led to the war of independence under the slogan “no taxation without representation”. Irish nationalism was fuelled by the unwillingness of British taxpayers to send money to “unthrifty” Ireland during the famine of the 1840s. Much of the debate on Scottish indepe...
Source: telegraph.co.uk