The Caribbean islands are called the West Indies to correct the name, Indies, mistakenly given by Christopher Columbus. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies of Asia.
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A tax is a compulsory monetary contribution imposed by governments to pay for governmental activities. Common taxes include income, sales and value-based taxes. A property tax is assessed according to the value of prop-erty a taxpayer owns. Because property taxes depend on value, they are called ad valorem, meaning