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> An alternate interpretation is half of the property taxes are paid for by less than 1% of the population, who also are acting as environmental conservators by not subdividing and developing large tracts of unspoiled wilderness.

As I understand it, "unspoiled wilderness" is exempt from the nearest things the UK has to property taxes, council tax (on residential properties) and business rates (on commercial properties).




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