If you thought ties were a dying a fashion (and you would be wrong by the way!), the Hungarian government would beg to differ. The minister of culture has apparently proposed a new tax on ties, claiming that as wearing a tie is a sign of culture, the culture ministry should benefit from it!

Well ok, what they’re really saying is that ties are designed by designers and design is art and art is culture, therefore… you get the idea, even if it is a little stretched.

One thing’s for sure, Gordon Brown may have been the king of stealth taxes, but even he never came up with taxing men’s neckwear!