Every year, PNC Bank publishes its “Christmas Price Index” to track the cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas. For 2023, it’s a hefty $46,730. That’s up 13% since we looked two years ago. (Inflation bites.) The index may not be completely accurate—for example, the ten lords-a-leaping are valued using the cost of male ballet dancers rather than card-carrying British lords. As for those eight maids-a-milking, well, “cows not included.” But still, we always wonder what sort of taxes we’re looking at on the whole affair.