single tax

noun Economics.
a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
Origin:
1875–80, Americanism

Related forms
sin·gle-tax, adjective
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single tax
 
—n
1.  a taxation system in which a tax on one commodity, usually land, is the only source of revenue
2.  such a tax

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