A tax assessed upon landed property.
1690. Consid. Raising Money, 34. There will be nothing … so much for the good of the Nation, as a Land-Tax.
1709. Royal Proclam., in Lond. Gaz., No. 4510/1. Receivers or Collectors of the Land-Taxes for the Years 1708 and 1709.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), III. xv. 135. The first land-tax was imposed in 1690, at the rate of three shillings in the pound on the rental.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 82. Pitt’s scheme of the year 1798 for the redemption of the land-tax.
1882. F. Pollock, in Macm. Mag., XLVI. 366/2. The old military tenures were abolished and the land-tax was imposed by way of compensation to the Crown for the dues which it thereby lost.
attrib. and Comb. 1740. Lady Hartford, Corr. (1805), II. 92. The land-tax gatherers.
1765–93. Blackstone, Comm. (ed. 12), 174. The land-tax and malt-tax acts are passed for one year only.
1858. Ld. St. Leonards, Handy-bk. Prop. Law, ix. 62. The Clerk of the Land-tax Commissioners.
