property tax

noun

1. a tax levied on real or personal property.

Word History and Origins

Origin of property tax¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

They then permit each school district to use its local property tax to raise additional funds as they choose.

From The Daily Beast

It launched Nixon, Reagan, the great populist property tax revolts.

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She opposed a property-tax freeze for seniors and pushed public-safety unions to reduce pension packages.

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The city's gambling tax now takes in more than its property tax.

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Records also show that Castro had fallen behind in his property-tax payments beginning in 2010.

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But ministers were induced to propose the continuance of the property-tax for a further period.

From Project Gutenberg

Another is a more rigid enforcement of the personal-property tax; but this is equally unpromising.

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Wolsey needed the sum of eight hundred thousand pounds, and proposed to raise it by a property tax of twenty per cent.

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Such property tax is not a personal and direct, but an indirect tax.

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To these must be added in a suburban community water tax, property tax, perhaps even a fire tax.

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