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    A tithe (/taɪð/; from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory...
    71 KB (8,635 words) - 04:18, 15 June 2024
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    Abbey. A tithe (from Old English teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a (usually) voluntary contribution or as a tax or levy, usually...
    3 KB (250 words) - 23:14, 16 January 2024
  • A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization...
    110 KB (14,335 words) - 04:21, 5 August 2024
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    encouraged its followers to stop paying tithes to the Catholic Church and taxes.: 143–44  In France, a tithe-payer strike spread from 1529 to 1560 among...
    289 KB (33,128 words) - 06:04, 19 July 2024
  • Property tax (redirect from Mill levy)
    imputed rent, and a land value tax, which is a levy on the value of land, excluding the value of buildings and other improvements. Under a property tax system...
    83 KB (10,884 words) - 17:09, 14 June 2024
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    a Letter to the People of Ireland (1833) he also proposed a 20 per cent tax on absentee landlords for poor relief, and the abolition of tithes levied...
    103 KB (11,034 words) - 17:40, 16 July 2024
  • local governments are entitled to levy taxes on citizens and companies. The federal government currently levies a value added tax, corporate income tax...
    18 KB (2,180 words) - 14:11, 31 July 2024
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    hybrid–Double Irish tool, on which the EU Commission would levy a €13 billion fine in August 2016. As a result of the action by Apple, a range of academics calculated...
    96 KB (8,763 words) - 16:43, 9 January 2024
  • romanized: jizya), or jizyah, is a tax historically levied on dhimmis, that is, protected non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law. The...
    184 KB (23,389 words) - 11:21, 28 May 2024
  • A financial transaction tax (FTT) is a levy on a specific type of financial transaction for a particular purpose. The tax has been most commonly associated...
    157 KB (16,793 words) - 03:39, 12 June 2024
  • Tithe: (from Old English teogotha "tenth") A one-tenth part of something, paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax or levy, usually to support a Jewish...
    76 KB (10,574 words) - 02:24, 28 July 2024
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    lands were tithed with a sincere wish to be thrifty in expenditure and to be considerate in showing love to the people, the one-tenth tax on the agricultural...
    23 KB (2,818 words) - 17:54, 6 August 2024
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    Rebecca Riots (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    outgoings, mainly rents, tithes, county rates, poor rates and the turnpike tolls. Farm rents were mainly static, but the tithes, tolls and poor rates increased...
    24 KB (3,051 words) - 14:43, 16 July 2024
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    lands were tithed with a sincere wish to be thrifty in expenditure and to be considerate in showing love to the people, the one-tenth tax on the agricultural...
    6 KB (782 words) - 10:52, 7 May 2023
  • A use tax is a type of tax levied in the United States by numerous state governments. It is essentially the same as a sales tax but is applied not where...
    19 KB (2,718 words) - 01:07, 20 March 2023
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    Quakers (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    presented on 20 May 1659, expressing the opposition of over 7000 women to "the oppression of Tithes". The overall number of Quakers increased to a peak of...
    146 KB (16,578 words) - 19:56, 2 August 2024
  • forced labor is referred to by the word "levy" in the Revised Version and "tribute" in the King James Version. A Levite of the family of Jeduthun (Nehemiah...
    295 KB (38,253 words) - 16:10, 4 August 2024
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    estates and levied tithes, effectively a 10% tax on income, collected from peasant farmers in the form of crops. In return, it provided a minimal level...
    149 KB (18,841 words) - 18:53, 29 July 2024
  • imposed when someone gives something of value to someone else. The transfer must be gratuitous or the receiving party must pay a lesser amount than the item's...
    15 KB (1,417 words) - 18:40, 7 June 2024
  • Henry George most notably championed the idea of a land value tax in Progress and Poverty, as a levy on the value of unimproved or natural aspects of the...
    41 KB (5,687 words) - 20:19, 23 June 2024
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