In 1990 today there was an ingenious attempt to hit HMRC where it hurts. The Inland Revenue claimed that Lindi St Clare aka Miss Whiplash owed a great deal of money in back taxes from her time as a brothel-keeper. She refused to pay, for the good of HMRC because had she done so, they would have been living off immoral earnings. If this was a case in TV's fabulous Boston Legal she would have won and we'd all have cheered. As it was, in the real world, the Establishment judge ruled against her. After all, the taxation system in this country has been immoral for years.
In other news ...
Today in 1718 James Puckle patented what was probably the world's first machine gun. Gatling and Thompson didn't really need to improve the gun much, but it had to be done because no one could bear the sniggering whenever anyone said, 'Don't you point your Puckle at me!'
