ratal

plural ratals · plural irtal

1. A traditional Maltese unit of weight, officially 1.75 imperial pounds (0.794 kg), now widely metrified informally to mean 800 grammes.

   The maximum price for locally grown produce was 4 pence a ratal for tomatoes, 6 pence a ratal for onions, 11 pence a ratal for potatoes, and 7 pence a ratal for cabbages.

   2012, Dennis Angelo Castillo, The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940-1942

1. not comparablePertaining to a rate of taxation.

   Nominee managers (gentlemen with a personal ratal qualification over £100) “represented liberality” and were intended to take a “wider view” of the MAB's responsibilities.

   2017, Matthew Newsom Kerr, Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

   2 more examples

   So prominent, however, was now the position of the Local Taxation question, that the new Prime Minister had scarcely assumed office ere he emphatically endorsed the very arguments for reform so long urged by ratal reformers […]

   1874, Patrick George Craigie, An Address on Local Taxation Reform, delivered to the Essex Chamber of Agriculture, at Chelmsford, 23rd October, 1874

   Valuable as much of the matter thus collected undoubtedly proved itself, and great as was the ability and industry which marked the compilation of its exhaustive tables, the effect of this report as designed to meet the complaints against ratal taxation, was scarcely so great as was probably expected.

   1877, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 40, page 264

plural ratals

1. The amount on which a tax rate is assessed.

   We have to provide for increased and increasing ratals and assessments.

   1907 August 24, The Economist, volume 65, page 1443

   3 more examples

   To encourage United States private investments abroad, the President proposed that incomes from such ventures be taxed at a rate 14 per cent below corporate ratals in the United States […]

   1954, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst

   The agency executed the leases to the tenants, had repairs made to the building, looked after the tax ratals and appeals, and watched the occupancy and use of the property so that insurance rates would not be affected.

   1960, Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, volume 35, United States Tax Court, page 756

   The land tax ratal is obtained by applying the land tax figure to the unit value.

   1963, Werner Kroth, Systems of Forest Taxation and Tax Impact Upon Private Forestry in Several European Countries