landtax

Confound the moonlight move, it cost me between six and seven pounds, we paid £5 8s. for our runaway landlord's rent, and three quarters landtax, besides expenses, about £9 6s. in all.

Letter 49 2009

The landtax was almost double what it was in the German provinces.

The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891

The revenue which the grand Signior receives at this moment from Aleppo is limited to the Miri, or general landtax, which the Janissaries themselves pay, the Kharatsh or tribute of the

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

Suppose, again, that upon the pretense of an interference with its revenues, it should undertake to abrogate a landtax imposed by the authority of a State; would it not be equally evident that this was an invasion of that concurrent jurisdiction in respect to this species of tax, which its Constitution plainly supposes to exist in the State governments?

The Federalist Papers 1788

Suppose, again, that upon the pretense of an interference with its revenues, it should undertake to abrogate a landtax imposed by the authority of a State; would it not be equally evident that this was an invasion of that concurrent jurisdiction in respect to this species of tax, which its

The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780