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

The Independent - London | December 12, 1998| | Copyright

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, ...

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