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1300s & 1400s: British tax assessors use ownership or occupancy of property to estimate a taxpayer’s ability to pay.
1700s: The property tax (levied at fixed rates on specific things) is one of five well-developed taxes that allow the colonies to finance a war against the world’s leading military power.
1834: Tennessee replaces a provision requiring that land be taxed at a uniform amount per acre with a provision that land be taxed according to its value.
1932: The property tax nationwide is providing 85.2 percent of local government own-source general revenue. That rate has since declined to about 40 percent.
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