| Short Title: | Marriage Duty Act 1694 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of England |
| Long Title: | An Act for granting to his Majesty certaine rates and duties upon Marriages Births and Burials and upon Batchelors and Widowers for the terme of Five yeares for carrying on the Warr against France with Vigour. |
| Year: | 1695 |
| Citation: | 6 & 7 Will. & Mar. c. 6 |
| Royal Assent: | 22 April 1695 |
| Repeal Date: | 1 January 1871 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Original Text: | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol6/pp568-583 |
| Short Title: | Marriage Duty Act 1695 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of England |
| Long Title: | An Act for the inforcing the Laws which restraine Marriages without Licence or Banns & for the better registring Marriags Births and Burials. |
| Year: | 1696 |
| Citation: | 7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 35 |
| Royal Assent: | 27 April 1696 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Duties on Marriages etc. Act 1697 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of England |
| Long Title: | An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the charging collecting & paying the Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchellors and Widowers. |
| Year: | 1697 |
| Citation: | 9 Will. 3. c. 32(Ruffhead: 9 & 10 Will. 3. c. 35) |
| Royal Assent: | 5 July 1698 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law Revision Act 1871 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
The Marriage Duty Act 1694 was a 1695 act of the Parliament of England which imposed a tax, known as Marriage Duty or the Registration Tax, on births, marriages, burials, childless widowers, and bachelors over the age of 25.[1] It was primarily used as a revenue raising mechanism for war on France and as a means of ensuring that proper records were kept by Anglican church officials. The tax was found ineffective and abolished by 1706.[2]