| 单词 | house tax |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse tax house tax n. any of various taxes levied on houses; cf. house duty n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > house tax house duty1666 house tax1694 1694 R. Molesworth Acct. Denmark in 1692 ix. 109 Land-Tax, House-Tax, Poll-Money, and Fortification-Money..are sometimes laid high, and sometimes low. 1787 in O. Browning Despatches fr. Paris (1909) I. 207 It is said that the Timbre, the House-Tax, and le commerce des Grains will be strongly oppos'd. 1833 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repository 7 580 A tradesman in Regent Street pays precisely as much house-tax (56l. 13s. 4d.) as the Duke of Devonshire pays for Chatsworth. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xxii. 20 In the case of the poor, a house-tax has special disadvantages. 1998 Chartered Surveyor Monthly May 34/1 The indigenous owner of a landed property might have to pay three types of property tax: a property tax (house tax): the yearly payment of [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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