land tax
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
When this was not enough, the government imposed a land tax, higher excise taxes, and America’s first income tax.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
All that is necessary to make the single, or land tax, an accomplished fact, and to bring about immediately the complete abolition of poverty, sir, is publicity.
From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent
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