land tax
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It doles out city-owned land, tax breaks and financing subsidies for big developments.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
A number of MPs also favour a land tax.
From BBC • May 24, 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
Requisitions upon states during the same period yielded $3,058,000 in specie value, but the proposals of Morris to institute a land tax, poll tax, excise, and tariff came to naught.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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