(in the US) Tea IS taxed along with most all other items offered for sale at retail. (and NO! Tea is NOT considered a food - therefore it IS taxed).
yea tea is a food it is taxed
In the US, there is NOOO tax on tea.
tax on tea tax on tea
The tea tax happened in 1773!!!
the british put tax on tea cause the colonists were being violent
Taxes on Tea
It was an expensive tax
Originally it was a tax on tea and then the British lowered the tea tax. By doing that they made the cost of the Dutch smugglers tea higher in price. They wanted to stop the smuggling and wanted to keep the monopoly on tea and by bringing down the tax they achieved both things.
If u mean the Boston tea party it was because of tea tax. If you mean the tax on tea it was to pay off debts from the French and Indian war
After the Townshed Acts were repealed, a British tea tax remained. The objective of the tea tax was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
To protest the tax on tea.
the tea taxes started in 1765
The Tea Act.Hope this helped :)