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Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’ll give my shiniest nickel to whoever can tell me if and when a land tax started being enforced.
Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that?
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’ll give my shiniest nickel to whoever can tell me if and when a land tax started being enforced.
bstix@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Give your nickel to Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
Tl;dr: 6000 BCE in ancient Iraq. It predates money, so they’d pay in whatever they used the land for.