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The Land Tax was a land value tax levied in England from 1692 to 1963, though such taxes predate the best-known 1692 Act.[1] It was 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 1692 act "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".[1] 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).[2]
A Land Tax had also applied in Scotland from 1667.[3][4] After the Acts of Union 1707, the Scottish charge was included in subsequent Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.