英语词汇“servant tax”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

servant tax n. now historical a tax applied to households keeping one or more servants.Used esp. to designate the tax introduced in England and Wales in 1777 and abolished in 1937. The servant tax was typically calculated on the basis of the number of male servants in a household, but in some periods was applied to both male and female servants.

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1782 Plan Taxation N.-Y. in A. Hamilton Wks. (1850) II. 210 Carriage Tax. Servant Tax. Collector, at the time he visits the houses, to take a list..of the carriages and menial servants.

1848 Punch 12 Aug. 68/2 Hasn't he [sc. the Saxon] exempted us [sc. Irishmen] from income-tax, window-tax, carriage-tax, and servant-tax?

1912 Illustr. London News 6 July 30/1 [The women who met] to protest against the servant tax..are busy about another big gathering to protest again and organise a ‘ServantTax Resisters' League’.

2013 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 20 July Ever since the window tax—and the carriage tax, the clock tax, the dog tax and servant tax—was thrown out in favour of income tax,..tax codes have become so complex..they are scarcely comprehendible.

单词	servant tax
释义	> as lemmas servant tax servant tax n. now historical a tax applied to households keeping one or more servants.Used esp. to designate the tax introduced in England and Wales in 1777 and abolished in 1937. The servant tax was typically calculated on the basis of the number of male servants in a household, but in some periods was applied to both male and female servants. ΚΠ 1782 Plan Taxation N.-Y. in A. Hamilton Wks. (1850) II. 210 Carriage Tax. Servant Tax. Collector, at the time he visits the houses, to take a list..of the carriages and menial servants. 1848 Punch 12 Aug. 68/2 Hasn't he [sc. the Saxon] exempted us [sc. Irishmen] from income-tax, window-tax, carriage-tax, and servant-tax? 1912 Illustr. London News 6 July 30/1 [The women who met] to protest against the servant tax..are busy about another big gathering to protest again and organise a ‘ServantTax Resisters' League’. 2013 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 20 July Ever since the window tax—and the carriage tax, the clock tax, the dog tax and servant tax—was thrown out in favour of income tax,..tax codes have become so complex..they are scarcely comprehendible. extracted from servantn. < as lemmas
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