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ˈland-tax
A tax assessed upon landed property.
1689Bp. G. Hooper (title) The Parsons Case under the Present Land-Tax. 1690Consid. Raising Money 34 There will be nothing..so much for the good of the Nation, as a Land-Tax. 1709Royal Proclam. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4510/1 Receivers or Collectors of the Land-Taxes for the years 1708 and 1709. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xv. 135 The first land-tax was imposed in 1690, at the rate of three shillings in the pound on the rental. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 82 Pitt's scheme of the year 1798 for the redemption of the land-tax. 1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 366 The old military tenures were abolished and the land-tax was imposed by way of compensation to the Crown for the dues which it thereby lost.
attrib. and Comb.1740C'tess of Hertford Corr. (1805) II. 92 The land-tax gatherers. 1765–93Blackstone Comm. (ed. 12) 174 The land-tax and malt-tax acts are passed for one year only. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-Bk. Prop. Law ix. 62 The Clerk of the Land-tax Commissioners. |