Explain the difference between property and excise taxes?

Blaine Connett: Well property tax is just what it sounds like, a tax on your property. Excise tax is a tax on things we don't really need, such as gas, cars, and cigarettes.

Claudio Drullard: property taxes are assessed on the value of the property, this is land and buildingsan excise tax is an additional tax over and above a sales tax on luxury items, at one time cosmetics were assessed an excise tax, expensive automobiles at one time were charged an excise tax