Did the UK government or Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves institute a levy on windows consisting of a £3.70 monthly fee on each, as of May 13, 2025? No, that's not true: No official sources made such an announcement. The window tax was abandoned in the U.K. by the mid-19th century.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on TikTok where it was published on April 28, 2025. It opened:
BREAKING
Absurd!' Rachel Reeves to tax'
privately owned homes
'window tax' Which will be
added to council tax payments. £3.70 per window
per house, per month. This will
take action as from the August
2025.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot by Lead Stories.)
However, a Google search (archived here) across the official account of the press office at UK's HM Revenue and Customs on X (archived here) showed no announcements mentioning the word "window":
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories)
A search across the UK's government websites for the keywords seen here (archived here) did not produce relevant results confirming the introduction of the supposed tax in 2025.
A search across Google News (archived here) showed no credible reports about it, either:
(Source: Google News screenshot by Lead Stories)
According to the website of the U.K. Parliament (archived here), the window tax was introduced in England in 1696 but was repealed in 1851.
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