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Description: | This brass door knocker in the shape of a crowned lion's head is from the Excise Office in Shakespeare Street, Dumfries.
Burns had to calculate and collect the tax due on a wide range of goods, most notably, silk, tobacco and beer and spirits. For this he received ��50 per year plus ��50 per smuggler arrested and a share in any goods confiscated.
Robert Burns began his duties as an Excise Officer in September 1789. Excise was a tax similar to VAT, but collected at the point of manufacture or import, rather than sale. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1800-01-01 - 1850-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Door knocker from the Excise Office, Dum | Go to resource |
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