land tax
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- noun
- /lænd tæks/
- UK
:
impuesto sobre la propiedad
- The current land tax rates are based on the value of the properties assessed last year.
- pay the land tax
It is simply that you as a person living in this polity pay this as a tax and then a land tax.
- It is simply that you as a person living in this polity pay this as a tax and then a land tax.
Examples
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The villagers had paid land taxes for many years, but many refused to join the newly formed irrigation committees and objected to the idea of paying water tariffs (Paerregaard 1994, 198).
Academic text (2016) -
The land tax is to be doubled.
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ANNE: Are the people really angry about the land tax?
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" Land values may have gone up, but land taxes have trebled.
Fiction book (1993) -
For example, industry expansion and a change in the land-tax system have raised land costs for the fruit industry.
Academic text (2001) -
They've pushed for high land taxes.
Blog text (1) -
The new land tax placed pressures on the largest landowners with idle lands either to put them into productive use or to sell them.
Academic text (2002) -
In addition, the government kept land taxes low and gave away the rights to clear-cut and sell remnant vegetation on concessions.
Academic text (2000) -
May I exhort the chamber to roar a mighty hurrah for Her Majesty in her brilliant decision to not raise the land tax.
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In Japan, civil unrest intensified Japanese immigration, and political and economic upheaval encouraged many peasants, impoverished by high land taxes, to leave the country in search of a better life.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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3.2
A tax local governments charge on houses and land based on how much they are worth
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tax on land' is directly and transparently composed from 'land' (property/ground) + 'tax' (a government charge). This noun–noun compound follows common English and cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun land tax comes from the simple idea of land and tax, meaning literally a 'tax on land'. Long ago kings and local leaders charged people who owned land because land was the main source of wealth, so today land tax means the money owners must pay for their property.