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$15,000,000 USD: 1803 2,140,000 km² 7 USD/km² Louisiana Purchase: Florida [9] United States Spain: $5,000,000 USD 1819 ~200,000 km² ~5 USD/km² Adams–Onís Treaty: Singapore [10] United Kingdom Johor: $60,000 Spanish dollars [11] 1824 728 km² ~82 Spanish dollars/km² Tranquebar, Serampore, and other continental holdings of Danish India [12]
South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.
One real estate agent estimated the Zammit property value to be just shy of $50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) in new developments, Australia's 7News reported in March of last year.
Under Commonwealth of Australia law, applicable only in the Northern Territory, they are agreements that allow for the use of Crown land by farmers. [ 3 ] Native title can co-exist with pastoral leases, and Indigenous land use agreements may be made between the leaseholder and the affected native title group.
Pakistan was able to acquire 15,210 square kilometres (5,870 sq mi) of land on the coast of Balochistan for around 5.5 billion Pakistani rupee (or 2 million US dollars today), paid mostly by Aga Khan IV. Pakistani Gwadar 1958-Present
Selection is the act of choosing and acquiring a subdivided tract of land for farming purposes in Australia. A selection is also descriptive of the plot of land that was selected. The term derived from "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. These acts were ...
Initial land sales were made as a prerequisite to the founding of the colony, with "preliminary land orders" being made to a total value of £35,000 prior to the 1837 settlement. A preliminary land order entitled the buyer to a 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) town block and an 80-acre (32 ha) section of rural land which was to be chosen by the individual ...
There may be some acquisitions of property to which section 51(xxxi) does not apply, such as those made under laws supported exclusively by section 122 of the Constitution. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Section 51(xxxi) is an exception to the norm for interpretation of the subsections of section 51 , that one grant of power cannot be used to "read down ...