tax value

plural tax values

1. TVabbreviationcountableuncountableThe assessed value of an asset from which the tax owing is computed.

   The Guatemalans offered United Fruit $627,572 (about $2.99 an acre) in compensation, a figure that came from the company's own tax value assessment for the land.

   2011, Daniel C. Walsh, An Air War with Cuba: The United States Radio Campaign Against Castro, →ISBN

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   The crooked floors came in handy at tax assessment time. After seeing an orange roll across the slanting floor, the assessor lowered the building's tax value, according to company lore.

   2006, Greg Tasker, Sanders Confectionery, →ISBN, page 30

   Tax records from 1860 show that on the eve of the Civil War the Alamance Cotton Factory employed sixty white women and eight white men, and the business had a tax value of $57,000.

   2009, William Murray Vincent, Historic Alamance County: An Illustrated History, →ISBN, page 37