tax
IPA: tˈæks
noun
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
- 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
verb
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
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Examples of "tax" in Sentences
- They paid the tax.
- The donations are tax deductible.
- The account also alleviates the burden of the tax.
- The hearth tax was a supplemental tax to make up the shortfall.
- He reduced expenditures and increased the sales tax and the income tax.
- That is to say the payer of the tax has no incentive to collect the tax.
- Acceptance of sumptuary taxes may be greater than income tax or sales tax.
- A participant puts the amount of his tax obligation into this escrow account.
- A tax is regressive if the marginal tax rate is less than the average tax rate.
- Even the Lakers would flinch at paying a $50 million annual tax bill in perpetuity.
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