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land tax

British  

noun

  1. (formerly) a tax payable annually by virtue of ownership of land, abolished in Britain in 1963

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It is in charge of doling out city-owned land, tax incentives and financing subsidies for large-scale development projects in the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

This covered her personal position in relation to council tax, stamp duty land tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

The Bengali calendar emerged under the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar by combining Islamic and solar Hindu calendars to facilitate land tax collection.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

To bankroll the programmes, Lee proposed a carbon tax and a national land tax scheme to increase taxes for all property holders and cut transaction costs.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2021

There is no farmer who does not compute before hand what the church tythe, which is a land tax of this kind, is, one year with another, likely to amount to.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier

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