Land Tax (England)
land value tax (1692 to 1963)
The Land Tax was a land value tax levied in England from 1670 to 1963: perhaps the best-known of these is the Land Tax Act 1692 (4 Will. & Mar. c. 1). Land taxes were abolished by the Finance Act 1963. Taxes on land date back to the Norman Conquest and beyond, and the Land Tax introduced in 1692 was a natural successor to taxation acts in 1671 and 1689, but the Land Tax Act 1692 "has been regarded as a turning point in the history of English revenue collection. It was from this act that contemporaries and historians alike date what has come to be known as the eighteenth-century Land Tax". The land tax elements of the 1671, 1689 and 1692 acts were limited to one year but the 1798 act made the tax perpetual (until it was abolished in 1963).
A Land Tax had also applied in Scotland from 1667. After the Acts of Union 1707, the Scottish charge was included in subsequent acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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