land tax

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

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Words nearby land tax

land snail, Landsteiner, Landsting, landsturm, Landtag, land tax, land-to-land, land up, Landus, landwaiter, landward

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How to use land tax in a sentence

Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?
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His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.
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In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
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It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.
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We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.
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