单词 | house duty |
释义 | > as lemmashouse duty house duty n. now chiefly historical a duty imposed on a (residential) house; = house tax n.In Britain applied spec. to the Inhabited House Duty of 1851. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > house tax house duty1666 house tax1694 1666 W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales lxi. 200 He hath also power to compound and mitigate forfaitures, House-duties, Rents of Tenants, and other matters which concern the Society. 1758 W. Blackstone Anal. Laws Eng. (new ed.) Index House Duty. 1850 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. during 30 Years' Peace II. iv. xi. 148 The house duty—that is nearly the best tax we have. 1890 Daily News 18 July 2/4 The Chancellor of the Exchequer..stated that tenemented houses of less than 20l. per annum were exempt from house duty. 1907 Monthly Rev. 27 154 The Land Tax is steadily falling, and the House Duty does not show signs of rapidly increasing in productiveness. 2008 Express (Nexis) 19 July 43 On this day in 1851, the much-hated window tax was finally abolished, only to be replaced by an almost equally unpopular house duty. < as lemmas |
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