land tax

(formerly) a tax payable annually by virtue of ownership of land, abolished in Britain in 1963

Words nearby land tax

Well, he wants to do away with the land-tax and substitute taxes on consumption.

Bureaucracy |Honore de Balzac
The Subvention on Land-tax, and much else, one must glide hastily over; safe nowhere but in flourishes of conciliatory eloquence.

The French Revolution |Thomas Carlyle
He repealed the Ballance land-tax in 1879, and substituted a property-tax.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8 |Various
They paid more than their proportion of the public taxes, because the nobility, clergy, &c. were exempted from paying a land-tax.

Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris |Samuel Stearns

The land-tax was the principal one of these burdens and caused as much difference of opinion as the army system.

Sweden |Victor Nilsson