Property Tax History in America

The Colonial Period Colonial people established property taxation mechanisms in order to fund their collective or communal interests. For instance, in 1620, the pilgrims who had landed at and started settling in Plymouth, Massachusetts received a rather weird gift...

The Origins of Property Taxes

Property tax is one of the oldest forms of taxation known to man. The history of property tax seems to stretch back to the very dawn of civilization. Every civilized society discovered to date has had property tax in one form or another. The earliest property tax...