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Definition of Land tax
1. Noun. A capital tax on property imposed by municipalities; based on the estimated value of the property.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Land Tax
Literary usage of Land tax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of political economy and taxation by David Ricardo (1919)
"But if a land-tax be imposed on all cultivated land, however moderate that tax
may be ... A land-tax of this latter description would be a very unequal tax, ..."
2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1857)
"Legislation on Land-Tax Redemption.— Results from the period of Mr. Pitt's Mr.
... Review of the Political Arithmetic of Land-Tax questions during the ..."
3. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1900)
"The Assessment Act of 1891 provides for an ordinary land-tax on the actual value
of land, and an owner is allowed to deduct any amount owing by him secured ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"Either from design or from accident, the mode of assessment seemed to unite the
substance of a land-tax with the forms of a capitation.178" The returns ..."
5. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"The so-called land tax of 1692 was, in effect, a subsidy at the rate of 48. in
... The land tax, or so much as is unredeemed, remains a source of revenue, ..."
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