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land tax, impost levied upon real property. It is sometimes called a real estate tax, especially when assessed against both improved and unimproved land. Probably the earliest direct tax and formerly the chief source of government revenue, it was known in ancient China and Egypt. Until modern times, European countries depended on it almost exclusively. In the United States the land tax (including the tax on improved property) has been the chief method of collecting local revenue, accounting for some 25% of all state and local government receipts. The tax may be assessed on the sale value of the property, although a fairer method is classification of the land according to its productiveness. For special theories of land tax, see physiocrats physiocrats (fĭz`ēəkrăts'), school of French thinkers in the 18th cent. who evolved the first complete system of economics. ..... Click the link for more information. ; single tax single tax, any levy that serves as the government's only source of revenue. Generally, however, it is understood to mean a tax derived from economic rent and used as the sole source of public receipts. ..... Click the link for more information. . BibliographySee R. T. Ely and E. W. Morehouse, Elements of Land Taxation (1924); H. Brown et al., ed., Land-Value Taxation Around the World (1955); H. P. Wald, Taxation of Agricultural Land in Underdeveloped Economies (1959). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In order to trace the TPN incident to the encounters and conflicts between colonial state and local society, he details Japan's institutional and social control through the legal system, community policing, census and the household registration system and emphasizes the impacts of economic policies such as land taxes and the sugar and forest industry. The study concludes that the government "has not passed laws to reform the property registry or implement new land taxes, there has been no movement toward the regularization of indigenous peoples' communal lands, and nothing has changed with regards to the inequitable distribution of land in the countryside. Because they were soon repealed, the land taxes in the 1909 Budget are remembered as no more than a curious interlude, but as we are reminded by Dr. |
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