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单词 pound rate
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pound rate
pound rate n. now historical a property tax or tithe expressed as a proportion of each pound of the assessed value of the property; cf. rate n.1 6c.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > rates > of so much in the pound
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1651 R. Culmer Ministers Hue & Cry 10 I have heard, that if a Pound-rate be set on Revenues in lieu of Tythes, that Landlords will abate that rate to the Tenant.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 404 125 l. raised by a pound-rate, at 4 d. in the pound.
1808 S. Toller Treat. Law Tithes L. 151 Houses in London pay an annual pound-rate in the name of tithes by virtue of an arbitration or decree confirmed by act of parliament.
1985 Eng. Hist. Rev. 100 301 The land tax was based upon consent and not force, and the government preferred to take the guaranteed income it provided rather than endanger this principle by attempting to turn it into a real pound-rate tax.
1994 M. J. Braddick Parl. Taxation 17th Cent. Eng. 142 There was no way of ascertaining the true geographical distribution of wealth. The alternative was a pound rate enforced by direct valuation, but this was administratively and politically impossible.
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