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Definition of 'tax'Noun
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-05-17
|author=George Monbiot|authorlink=George Monbiot
|title=Money just makes the rich suffer
|volume=188|issue=23|page=19
|magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
citation
|passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax . The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
A burdensome demand.
- a heavy tax on time or health
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(obsolete) charge; censure
- (Clarendon)
(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (money paid to government) impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levy
Antonyms
* (money paid to government) subsidy
Hyponyms
( types of taxes)
* church tax
* corporation tax
* duty
* estate tax
* excise
* excise tax
* gift tax
* goods and services tax
* gross receipts tax
* head tax
* income tax
* inheritance tax
( rel-mid)
* land tax
* poll tax
* property tax
* personal property tax
* real property tax
* sales tax
* sin tax
* sumptuary tax
* transfer tax
* use tax
* utilities tax
* value added tax
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Coordinate terms
( other government revenues)
* fine
* license fee
( rel-mid)
* penalty
* seignorage
* user charge
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Derived terms
* tax collector
* tax haven
* tax hike
* taxman
( rel-mid)
* tax free
* tax rise
* taxes due
* taxpayer
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( es)
To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
To make excessive demands on.
* Do not tax my patience.
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Derived terms
* taxable
* taxation
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