Jose Gonzalez - The Official Blog » Boxing Day Origins http://www.josegonzalez.co.uk Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:55:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Boxing Day Origins, Queen Victoria and Corporation tax http://www.josegonzalez.co.uk/boxing-day-origins-queen-victoria-and-corporation-tax/ http://www.josegonzalez.co.uk/boxing-day-origins-queen-victoria-and-corporation-tax/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:04:19 +0000 Jose Gonzalez http://josegonzalez.co.uk/?p=51 http://josegonzalez.co.uk/

Do you know where Boxing Day comes from? Apparently, Boxing Day originated in England in the 19th century, when Queen Victoria ruled. They made the 26th of December a holiday, and on this day boxes were filled with gifts and money for servants and tradespeople. I’m not sure why tradespeople benefited from this… I mean, [...]

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Do you know where Boxing Day comes from?

Apparently, Boxing Day originated in England in the 19th century, when Queen Victoria ruled. They made the 26th of December a holiday, and on this day boxes were filled with gifts and money for servants and tradespeople.

I’m not sure why tradespeople benefited from this… I mean, what if at trade person was doing very well for themselves? Did they also get a cash bonus on this day?

Ironically now it’s the other way around: now trades people have to pay the Queen every year (corporation tax).

But not Queen Victoria of course.

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