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Single tax   /sˈɪŋgəl tæks/   Listen
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Single tax  n.  (Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. "Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform."






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"Single tax" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ireland is too poor to make even a penny-postage pay its own cost. No stronger mark of a stagnant trade could be adduced. "And then we lowered your spirit duty." Yes you did, because it brought in less than the lower duty. What single tax did you take off, except when it had been raised so high, or the country had declined so low, that it ceased to be productive? You increased our taxation up to the end of the war two and a half times more rapidly than you did your own, ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis



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