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  1. Thank you for sharing your research. You always have such interesting tidbits. Stay safe. Yummy – waffles.

  2. How interesting. Bingley was to take over Netherfield at Michaelmas, and Sir Walter mentioned Michaelmas in regard to their moving out and the Crofts moving in. Or something like that. I’m too lazy to look it up. And… you ended with that delicious picture of a waffle. Yum.

  3. When I lived in the UK in the early 90s, my rent was due monthly but my utilities were due quarterly. I didn’t know then that it was a hold-over of the quarter-day system.

    Americans didn’t pay an income tax until 1914, when the first Tax Day was March 1st. It got moved twice, not settling on April 15th until 1955. (Source: https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/personal-income-taxes/april-15-tax-day1.htm) Because the US didn’t really observe quarter days, they didn’t factor into the scheduling of Tax Day. Interestingly, if Tax Day falls on Emancipation Day (a holiday in the District of Columbia, where IRS headquarters is located), everyone’s tax filing deadline moves to the following workday.

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  5. the UK tax system is now calculated from April 5th to April 4th – another hang-over from Lady day – the extra ten days were the result of the change to the Gregorian calendar, which ‘lost’ ten days, so the tax year added them back on again.

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