land tax

noun

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

Nearby words

land rail, land rain, land reform, land sailing, land snail, land tax, land up, land wind, land with, land yacht, land's end

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Examples from the Web for land tax

Well, he wants to do away with the land-tax and substitute taxes on consumption.
Bureaucracy|Honore de Balzac
The Subvention on Land-tax, and much else, one must glide hastily over; safe nowhere but in flourishes of conciliatory eloquence.
The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
He repealed the Ballance land-tax in 1879, and substituted a property-tax.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8|Various
They paid more than their proportion of the public taxes, because the nobility, clergy, &c. were exempted from paying a land-tax.
Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris|Samuel Stearns

The land-tax was the principal one of these burdens and caused as much difference of opinion as the army system.
Sweden|Victor Nilsson