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tax English

Meaning tax meaning

What does tax mean?
Definitions in simple English

tax Verb

— Make to pay a tax. Some people say governments tax poor people too much. — Cause difficulty for; make tired.

tax

— noun charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government — verb levy a tax on The State taxes alcohol heavily Clothing is not taxed in our state — verb set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) — verb make a charge against or accuse They taxed him failure to appear in court — verb use to the limit you are taxing my patience

Synonyms tax synonyms

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tax English » English

duty levy toll tribute impost assess fee charge taxation burden impose imposition excise task rent assessment tariff revenue enhancement revenue rate customs contribution cess strain scot fine fare encumber dues due wear out wear tithe thrust taxes tax assessment stress require rates raise tax put on punctilious property port tax pay overload overcharge oblige obligatory contribution obligation

Topics tax topics

What do people use tax to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance

Tax
Person Body condition

Tired
Work and occupation

Occupation

Conjugation tax conjugation

How do you conjugate tax?

tax · verb

Examples tax examples

How do I use tax in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The price includes tax.
A special tax is imposed on very high incomes.
The consumption tax is now 5 percent in Japan.
How much is it including insurance and tax?
Don't expect any tax relief.
The company moved its corporate domicile to Hong Kong for tax purposes.
Does that price include tax?
A generous tax break will be provided to foreign companies that set up factories in the area.
The tax bill was passed yesterday.
The tax bore hard on the peasantry.
Is there any tax on this?
Do you have any tax-free articles?
This amount includes tax.
The income from this source is tax-free.
Honesty doesn't pay under the current tax system.
President Reagan's tax program has not worked.
Many of us are hostile to the consumption tax.
We must pay the tax.
The Prime Minister stated that he would not introduce a new tax without the consensus of public opinion.
The new tax law is full of loopholes.
The government has imposed a new tax on wine.
The government makes us pay tax.
The government imposed a new tax on farmers.

Movie subtitles

A tax haven.
Tax people? Would you like to wait?
HOW ABOUT TAKING UP THE TAX?
WE MUST TAKE UP THE TAX!
YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE UP THE TAX BEFORE YOU CAN TAKE UP THE CARPET.
Yes, there's a federal tax, a state tax, and a city tax. a street tax, and a sewer tax.
If the tax boys find out, they're liable to wonder where it comes from.
I'll assign tax districts to you tomorrow.
Any more objections to the new tax from our Saxon friends?
Else we'll have nobody left to till our land or pay the tax.
Those who have no money, will pay the tax in goods.
I am coming to collect the tax in the afternoon.
Is it the income tax?
How about taking up the tax?
We must take up the tax!
Tax strips, passes, lottery tickets, checks.
They also announced that they won't adjust the exchange rates. So an increase on the public tax is unavoidable.
You can't get out of this country without paying your income tax. Mm.
That income tax.
If I were the government, as my concierge says. I'd heavily tax those who don't spend their incomes.
Tax strips, passes, lottery tickets, checks. Whatever you want. Paper money from half of the world.
We Saxons have little to fatten on by the time your tax gatherers are through.
Has he got the tax money? -A fortune!
Their families beaten and starved to death by your tax gatherers.
You needs all your valuables to sell for that tax money.

News and current affairs

The higher the growth rate, the more revenues the government will collect without raising tax rates; and higher revenues enable smaller deficits.
The truth, of course, is that aid is more stable than tax revenues in poor countries.
By the IMF's logic, neither aid nor tax revenues should be included in budgets.
A global externality can best be dealt with by a globally agreed tax rate.
This does not mean an increase in overall taxation, but simply a substitution in each country of a pollution (carbon) tax for some current taxes.
It makes much more sense to tax things that are bad, like pollution, than things that are good, like savings and work.
The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
Many countries require sweeping reforms to make their tax systems more efficient and their entitlement programs - including their pension schemes - more realistic.
Most developed countries already have a tax of this size (and often much larger) on electricity and fossil fuels, although this also incorporates the costs of air pollution and supply insecurity.
Governments talk far too much about setting a relatively high carbon tax on emissions, while focusing far too little on ensuring a meaningful increase in research and development to bring about necessary breakthroughs.
If monetary policy is not effective, the only lever the American government has to manage its economy is fiscal policy: changes in the government's tax and spending plans to change the government's direct contribution to aggregate demand.
Why do Piemontese, Bavarians, or Scots need intermediate national bureaucracies to run their tax policies, welfare programs, securities laws, and the largely useless, duplicative armies?
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.
Well-meaning US politicians have likewise shown how not to tackle global warming with subsidies and tax breaks.
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
And low growth will hurt tax revenues, undermining the proclaimed goal of fiscal consolidation.
The single most important driver of deficit growth is weak tax revenues, owing to poor economic performance; the single best remedy would be to put America back to work.
Tax reform, however, can provide spur retraining and maintain incentives to work, even while fixing gaping fiscal holes.
A tax on carbon should be equivalent to its damage.
In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.
Profound reform of the welfare state and building a modern tax administration system requires time.
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