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Meaning of real-estate tax | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“In towns and cities a real-estate tax is supposed to be exclusively on landlords, and the owners of houses: but, ultimately, it is a tax on the tenants who rent the houses, for the rate of tax has much to do with the rate of rents. A real-estate tax, therefore, reaches all persons at last; […]”
“ALMOST anywhere in the United States, if you own a home you may fairly assume that someone who owns a home of equal value is paying much less in real-estate taxes than you are, and someone else is paying much more.”
“My biggest issue was that our real-estate taxes increased by 600 percent between 1975 and 1980.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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