NOUN
- a capital tax on property imposed by municipalities; based on the estimated value of the property
How To Use land tax In A Sentence
- Expectation that legislation will authorize value - based land tax.
- Then it was suggested that the Powers should do this through certain sections of the country, and then, again, that they should intervene through control of the institutions and organizations of China as, for instance, international control of railways, international control of land taxes, international control of the salt gabelle, which is more or less under international control; and of course the customs and the postal service. What Is To Become of China?
- We have also increased the payroll and land tax thresholds that free up many small businesses from the burden of payroll and land taxes altogether.
- Taking all these circumstances into view, it is not going too far to assert, that on equal fortunes the assessed taxes are _twice as heavy_ in the country as in towns; and that of £3,312,000 which they produce annually, after deducting the land tax, about £2,500,000, is paid by _landowners either in town or country_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
- The previous Victorian act, the Land Tax Act 1877, was directed to lands owned by squatters, what were known as landed estates.
- Wang had tendered his resignation on Oct. 7 following widespread public and cross-party criticism of his controversial proposal for land tax reforms.
- It is not rare for an allottee who has paid land tax to the BDA towards his site for years, to be faced with the horror of an unauthorised construction or face threats from hoodlums when he sets out to build a house.
- The Government was in the habit of collecting the land tax from the 'ryot' or peasant through a class of middle-men called 'talukd [= a] rs', [17] who had existed under the native princes for a long time. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
- Resolution, his acquisition vehicle, is domiciled in the island tax haven and is out of step with these more chastened times. Times, Sunday Times
- He faced serious opposition over his land tax and provincial assembly proposals, but he conducted himself gracefully. The Times Literary Supplement
