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It concerned provincial taxes, which were levied from the last decade of the 19th century. Abroad, they wanted to put a stop to the diversity of municipal bicycle taxes. This problem did not arise in Belgium, but mainly concerned a new source of income, part of which flowed to the municipality and part to the province. It was also designed as a socio-economic leveling system. The latter is evidenced by the existence of categories of pictures for the unemployed - it was indeed a kind of 'whatstand tax'. The abolition therefore took place differently from province to province, between 1986 and 1991, strangely enough, not for reasons of principle, but because production costs did not offset revenues, and there was also a very strong resistance to tax increases.
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