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Quit rent or
Quit-rent is a form of levy or land tax imposed on
freehold or
leased land by a higher landowning authority, usually
government or its
assigns.
Under
feudal law, the payment of quit rent freed the
tenant of a holding from the obligation to perform such other services as were obligatory under feudal tenure. In post-feudal times, quit rents have continued to be imposed by some governments, usually attached to land grants as a form of land tax.
The quit rent system was used frequently by
colonial governments in the
British empire. Many land grants in
colonial America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries carried quit rent. Quit rents went on to be used in British colonies in
Asia and elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Some governments have now abolished the quit rent system and relieved those with a nominal quit rent obligation from the requirement to pay it, replacing quit rents with a uniform system of
land tax. However in other countries, such as
Malaysia, quit rent remains an important means of raising revenue from landowners.
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