The World's Weirdest Taxes | QI

This clip is from QI Series T, Episode 8, 'Ticks Tax Toes' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Rose Matafeo, Ross Noble and Lou Sanders, .

[ericstelzman]

In Argentina, there was an exemption for those who attempted to get married but were rejected. This resulted in an industry of "professional rejecters, " which had prospective women claim to judges that the bachelors tried and failed to win their hand in exchange for a cut of the tax break.

[Leornianæfre]

Need more Rose appearances on QI XL. She’s an excellent panelist.

[starvr]

Always loved the episode where Ross Noble got obsessed with "tossing ewokes in to a lake of farts" LOL

[xant]

Didn't recognize rose until halfway through

[shmookins]

QI returns in two days (Oct. 27, 2024)!
It's the 'V' series. The first episode is 'Voyaging'.

[NewMessage]

The Klaxon tax is steep enough. You pay it slowly, in the form of hearing loss.

[troyboyd]

In Canada today (and I suppose elsewhere) there are tax breaks for married couples. Effectively a tax on single people...

[robynw]

Australian here. Many years ago we had "married man's tax" and "unmarried man's tax". The unmarried was higher, so my father opted for his employer to take out his tax at unmarried rates even after he married and had his two children. This meant that when he filed his tax return, he had already paid more tax than he should have as a married man, and so always got a refund at tax time. He called it his "bonus savings".

[RubyDoobieScoo]

I feel bad for the men who were disfigured in WW1, left by their fiancées upon returning, and then taxed extra for being single.

[safebox]

UK used to tax windows; that's why a lot of Victorian homes in poorer areas used to brick them up.

[MitchCyan]

Therapist: “Smooth Rose Matefeo isn’t real”.

[stevereber]

Rose Matafeo with flat hair, I almost didn't recognize her, loved her since Daisy Chainsaw

[tetsi]

I mean... technically they still tax you higher if you're unmarried in many countries as getting married comes with tax benefits.

[salty-pete]

In Western Australia there is a tax on pools but it is diguised as a "pool inspection." You pay it every year but someone comes out for 5 minutes evry 5 years to inspect? it.

[Iain-he]

Taxing single people? Weird? Well, the UK still has a bachelors' tax. David Cameron re-introduced the Married Person's Tax Allowance. Single folk, by definition, can't claim it.

[andrasszabo]

In Hungary there was a radical demographic policy under the welfare miniter Ratkó Anna after the Communist takeover post-WWII.
My grandparents had to pay taxes for failure of having children (!) before my dad was born in 1956.

[Mubashir_AK]

I recognized Rose's face, but thought surely not. She had such magnificent curls.

[QuantumHistorian]

Batchelor taxes might sound weird; but tax benefits, reductions, and the like for married couples (especially with kids) are very common. Yet they're the flip side of the same coin. Eg, increasing the rate of tax by 10p for bachelors is functionally identical to raising it by 10p for everyone, and then giving a 10p rate deduction to married couples. The optics, of course, are rather different....

[rooty]

Is that rose? Wtf? She looks completely different

[stefanholmstrom]

From 1935 to 1975 Finland had spinster/bachelor tax (There is actually a "spinster" word for men, too: "old boy" = vanhapoika, whereas vanhapiika is "old maid") ". People who had turned 24 but were unmarried or/and childless had to pay more tax.