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Land Tax Records

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BeeJayEss
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Land Tax Records

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Just come across in Ancestry’s Land Tax Records 1692 – 1932, a record for William Avent in 1825. The amount was recorded in the “Redeemed” column, with nothing in the “Land Tax” or “Personal Duty” columns. This is new to me; can anyone tell me what the different columns mean please. Thanks in advance.
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AdrianBruce
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So far as I understand it, the "Land Tax" column is for the, ahem, Land Tax. If you want to understand how it's calculated, I have a vague idea that the answer is go and lie down until the desire passes - it looked simple in my recollection but turned out to have complications.

Redemption(?) was the processing of making one single payment that would remove that land from the necessity of ever paying it again. See https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/En ... Institute) Now whether the amount in the Redeemed column was the value of the payment to redeem the tax, or whether it listed what the tax would have been but putting it in the Redeemed column meant that it had been redeemed so wouldn't be collected, I don't know. That link implies that the Redemption amounts were substantial.

Personal Duty, I can't help on, I'm afraid - Google just picks up way to many uses of that phrase in totally different contexts.
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Thanks Adrian, that's very helpful.
Bev
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