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		scandox on Jan 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Own... RICHARD SCOTT, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH & QUEENSBERRY owns 280,000 acres of the UK. A country 40 times smaller in area than the US.

shiftpgdn on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

Is it correct that in the UK there is no land tax? That his cost to own that land is effectively 0?

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