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tax
taxa sum of money demanded by a government; levy; lay a burden on; strain, stretch
Not to be confused with:tacks – short, sharp nails with broad, flat heads; fastens; zigzagstax T0062900 (tăks)n.1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.tr.v. taxed, tax·ing, tax·es 1. To place a tax on (income, property, or goods).2. To exact a tax from: taxed the people.3. Law To assess (court costs, for example).4. To make difficult or excessive demands upon: a boss who taxed everyone's patience.5. a. To accuse; confront: taxed him with ingratitude.b. To hold accountable: The contractor was taxed with the mistake of the subcontractor.
[Middle English, from taxen, to tax, from Old French taxer, from Medieval Latin taxāre, from Latin, to touch, reproach, reckon, frequentative of tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots.]
tax′a·ble (tăk′sə-bəl) adj.tax′a·bly adv.tax′er n.tax (tæks) n1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc2. a heavy demand on something; strain: a tax on our resources. vb (tr) 3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to levy a tax on (persons, companies, etc, or their incomes, etc)4. to make heavy demands on; strain: to tax one's intellect. 5. to accuse, charge, or blame: he was taxed with the crime. 6. (Law) to determine (the amount legally chargeable or allowable to a party to a legal action), as by examining the solicitor's bill of costs: to tax costs. 7. slang to steal[C13: from Old French taxer, from Latin taxāre to appraise, from tangere to touch] ˈtaxer n ˈtaxless adjtax (tæks)
n. 1. a sum of money levied on incomes, property, sales, etc., by a government for its support or for specific services. 2. a burdensome charge, obligation, or demand. v.t. 3. (of a government) a. to impose a tax on (a person or business). b. to levy a tax on (income, goods, etc.), usu. in proportion to the value of money involved. 4. to make serious demands on or of; burden; strain: to tax one's resources. 5. to reprove or accuse; censure or charge: to tax a person with laziness. 6. Archaic. to estimate or determine the value of. [1250–1300; (v.) Middle English < Latin taxāre to handle] tax′er, n. tax- excise - As in tax, it is from Middle Dutch excijs, from Latin accensum, "to tax."
- tax - From Latin taxare, "censure, charge, or compute."
- toll - Traces back to Greek telos, "tax."
- disposable income, surplus income - Disposable income or surplus income is what you have left after taxes and other government obligations—i.e. what you have left to live on.
tax
Past participle: taxed
Gerund: taxing
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| I tax | | you tax | | he/she/it taxes | | we tax | | you tax | | they tax |
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| I taxed | | you taxed | | he/she/it taxed | | we taxed | | you taxed | | they taxed |
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| I am taxing | | you are taxing | | he/she/it is taxing | | we are taxing | | you are taxing | | they are taxing |
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| I have taxed | | you have taxed | | he/she/it has taxed | | we have taxed | | you have taxed | | they have taxed |
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| I was taxing | | you were taxing | | he/she/it was taxing | | we were taxing | | you were taxing | | they were taxing |
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| I had taxed | | you had taxed | | he/she/it had taxed | | we had taxed | | you had taxed | | they had taxed |
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| I will tax | | you will tax | | he/she/it will tax | | we will tax | | you will tax | | they will tax |
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| I will have taxed | | you will have taxed | | he/she/it will have taxed | | we will have taxed | | you will have taxed | | they will have taxed |
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| I will be taxing | | you will be taxing | | he/she/it will be taxing | | we will be taxing | | you will be taxing | | they will be taxing |
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| I have been taxing | | you have been taxing | | he/she/it has been taxing | | we have been taxing | | you have been taxing | | they have been taxing |
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| I will have been taxing | | you will have been taxing | | he/she/it will have been taxing | | we will have been taxing | | you will have been taxing | | they will have been taxing |
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| I had been taxing | | you had been taxing | | he/she/it had been taxing | | we had been taxing | | you had been taxing | | they had been taxing |
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| I would tax | | you would tax | | he/she/it would tax | | we would tax | | you would tax | | they would tax |
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| I would have taxed | | you would have taxed | | he/she/it would have taxed | | we would have taxed | | you would have taxed | | they would have taxed |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  tax - charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of governmentrevenue enhancement, taxationwithholding - the act of deducting from an employee's salaryimposition, infliction - the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)accumulator, collector, gatherer - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)net estate - the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)disposable income - income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spendingunearned income, unearned revenue - personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)deductible - (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax)budget items, operating cost, operating expense, overhead - the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxeslevy - a charge imposed and collectedsingle tax - a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land)income tax - a personal tax levied on annual incomecapital gains tax - a tax on capital gains; "he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling"capital levy - a tax on capital or propertydeparture tax - a tax that is levied when you are departing a country by land or sea or airfranchise tax - a tax that is imposed by states on corporations; it depends both on the net worth of the corporation and on its net income attributable to activities within the stategift tax - a tax imposed on transfers of property by gift during the lifetime of the giverdirect tax - a tax paid directly by the person or organization on whom it is leviedindirect tax - a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizationshidden tax - a tax paid unwittingly by the consumer (such as ad valorem taxes)capitation - a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per persongraduated tax, progressive tax - any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increasesproportional tax - any tax in which the rate is constant as the amount subject to taxation increasesdegressive tax - any tax in which the rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increasesrates - a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)stamp duty, stamp tax - a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications)pavage - a tax toward paving streetstransfer tax - any tax levied on the passing of title to propertyspecial assessment - an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the propertycharge - financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"deductible - acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction)progressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increasesregressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | | Verb | 1. | tax - levy a tax on; "The State taxes alcohol heavily"; "Clothing is not taxed in our state"levy, impose - impose and collect; "levy a fine"excise - levy an excise tax ontariff - charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"surtax - levy an extra tax on; "surtax luxury items that cost more than $1,000"overtax - tax excessively; "Don't overtax my constituents!" | | 2. |  tax - set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)assessset, determine - fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"assess - charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | | 3. | tax - use to the limit; "you are taxing my patience"taskstrain, extend - use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much" | | 4. | tax - make a charge against or accuse; "They taxed him failure to appear in court"charge - make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased" |
taxnoun1. charge, rate, duty, toll, levy, tariff, excise, contribution, assessment, customs, tribute, imposition, tithe, impost a cut in tax on new cars2. strain, demand, burden, pressure, weight, load, drain less of a tax on her bodily resourcesverb1. charge, impose a tax on, levy a tax on, rate, demand, assess, extract, exact, tithe The government taxes profits of corporations at a high rate.2. strain, push, stretch, try, test, task, load, burden, drain, exhaust, weaken, weary, put pressure on, sap, wear out, weigh heavily on, overburden, make heavy demands on, enervate Overcrowding has taxed the city's ability to deal with waste.3. accuse, charge, blame, confront, impeach, incriminate, arraign, impugn, lay at your door Writers to the letters column taxed me with shallowness.
accuse clear, acquit, vindicate, exonerate, exculpateQuotations
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" [Benjamin Franklin letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy]
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is intrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can" [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke speech]
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men" [Edmund Burke On American Taxation]
"If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing" [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
"Only the little people pay taxes" [Leona Helmsley]
"Read my lips: no new taxes" [George Bush speech during election campaign - later, he raised taxes]
"Taxation without representation is tyranny" [James Otis]
"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin" [Mark Twain]taxnoun1. A compulsory contribution, usually of money, that is required for the support of a government:assessment, duty, impost, levy, tariff.2. A duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardship:burden, millstone, onus, weight.Informal: headache.verb1. To place a burden or heavy load on:burden, charge, cumber, encumber, freight, lade, load, saddle, weight.2. To force to work:drive, task, work.Idiom: crack the whip.3. To make an accusation against:accuse, arraign, charge, denounce, incriminate, indict.4. To criticize for a fault or an offense:admonish, call down, castigate, chastise, chide, dress down, rap, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, upbraid.Informal: bawl out, lambaste.Slang: chew out.Idioms: bring to task, call on the carpet, haul over the coals, let someone have it.Translationstax (tӕks) noun1. money, eg a percentage of a person's income or of the price of goods etc taken by the government to help pay for the running of the state. income tax; a tax on tobacco. 稅 税2. a strain or burden. The continual noise was a tax on her nerves. 負擔 负担 verb1. to make (a person) pay (a) tax; to put a tax on (goods etc). He is taxed on his income; Alcohol is taxed. 課稅 征税2. to put a strain on. Don't tax your strength! 使負擔加重 使负担加重ˈtaxable adjective liable to be taxed. taxable income/goods. 應徵納稅的 应征纳税的taxˈation noun the act or system of taxing. 稅制 税制ˈtaxing adjective mentally or physically difficult. a taxing job. 繁重的 繁重的ˌtax-ˈfree adjective, adverb without payment of tax. tax-free income. 免稅的 免税的ˈtaxpayer noun a citizen who pays taxes. 納稅人 纳税人ˈtax (someone) with to accuse (a person) of. I taxed him with dishonesty. 責備 责备tax
sin taxA tax on items considered harmful and non-essential, such as cigarettes and alcohol. Primarily heard in US. I hope you're prepared to pay a sin tax on those cigarettes.See also: sin, taxtax (one) with (something)1. To hold one responsible or accountable for something. Often used in passive constructions. As a customer support representative, just be aware that customers are going to tax you with any and all issues they have with the service. I'm used to being taxed with the mistakes of my subordinates.2. To accuse one of something; to lay blame on one for something. Often used in passive constructions. Police taxed him with aggravated assault and public endangerment. He was taxed with deceiving his clients in order to charge them for things they hadn't asked for.See also: taxtax-and-spendCharacterized by excessive spending and government expansion funded by excessive taxation. Used before a noun. The average working class citizen is sick of the tax-and-spend policies of this administration. The candidate is running her campaign as an attack against a tax-and-spend government that she claims is suffocating the country.pink taxThe higher price often applied to products or services that are for or are marketed to women, especially when such products are similar or nearly identical to products or services for or marketed to men. The term refers to the fact that many such products are in fact pink. However, the term does not refer to an actual tax. A: "Why are my razors so much more expensive than my husband's?" B: "Because of the pink tax, that's why."See also: pink, taxtax someone or something with somethingto burden or tire someone or something with something. Please don't tax me with any more requests for my immediate attention. You are continuing to tax this committee with your constant complaints.See also: taxtax-and-spendspending freely and taxing heavily. (Referring to a legislative body that repeatedly passes expensive new laws and keeps raising taxes to pay for the cost. Fixed order.) I hope that people do not elect another tax-and-spend Congress this time. The only thing worse than a tax-and-spend legislature is one that spends and runs up a worsening deficit.tax withCharge, accuse, as in He was taxed with betraying his fellows. [Mid-1600s] See also: taxtax
tax a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc. tax
tax Vox populi Monies paid to a governing body. See Dean's tax, Fat tax, Provider tax, Sin tax. tax
taxn. a governmental assessment (charge) upon property value, transactions (transfers and sales), licenses granting a right, and/or income. These include Federal and state income taxes, county and city taxes on real property, state and/or local sales tax based on a percentage of each retail transaction, duties on imports from foreign countries, business licenses, Federal tax (and some states' taxes) on the estates of persons who have died, taxes on large gifts, and a state "use" tax in lieu of sales tax imposed on certain goods bought outside of the state. (See: income tax, estate tax, gift tax, use tax, unified estate and gift tax, franchise tax) tax a levy made by national or local government to pay for services provided by public bodies. There is no inherent power in the Crown to raise money in this way; express provision must be made by statute. Changes to tax law are made annually in the Finance Act(s); periodically the law is consolidated, as for example in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992. See TAXATION.tax
tax a levy imposed by the government on GOODS and SERVICES (INDIRECT TAX) and the INCOME and WEALTH of persons and businesses (DIRECT TAX). The government uses taxes for a number of purposes such as: - to raise revenue to finance government spending (see BUDGET);
- to promote social equity by redistributing income and wealth (see DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME);
- to regulate the level of total spending in the economy (see FISCAL POLICY);
- to protect domestic producers from imports (see TARIFF). See INCOME TAX, CORPORATION TAX, CAPITAL GAINS TAX, WEALTH TAX, INHERITANCE TAX, VALUE-ADDED TAX, CUSTOMS DUTY, EXCISE DUTY.
tax a levy imposed by the government on the income, wealth and capital gains of persons and businesses (DIRECT TAX), on spending on goods and services (INDIRECT TAX), and on properties. In the UK, taxes on income include personal INCOME TAX and CORPORATION TAX; ‘inheritance tax’ is used to tax wealth (see WEALTH TAX) and CAPITAL GAINS TAX is used to tax ‘windfall’ profits; taxes on spending include VALUE-ADDED TAX, EXCISE DUTY and TARIFFS; taxes on properties include the council tax (see LOCAL TAX) and the UNIFORM BUSINESS RATE. Such taxes are used to raise revenue for the government and as a means of controlling the level and distribution of spending in the economy. See TAXATION, PUBLIC FINANCE.See TX
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tax
Synonyms for taxnoun chargeSynonyms- charge
- rate
- duty
- toll
- levy
- tariff
- excise
- contribution
- assessment
- customs
- tribute
- imposition
- tithe
- impost
noun strainSynonyms- strain
- demand
- burden
- pressure
- weight
- load
- drain
verb chargeSynonyms- charge
- impose a tax on
- levy a tax on
- rate
- demand
- assess
- extract
- exact
- tithe
verb strainSynonyms- strain
- push
- stretch
- try
- test
- task
- load
- burden
- drain
- exhaust
- weaken
- weary
- put pressure on
- sap
- wear out
- weigh heavily on
- overburden
- make heavy demands on
- enervate
verb accuseSynonyms- accuse
- charge
- blame
- confront
- impeach
- incriminate
- arraign
- impugn
- lay at your door
Antonyms- clear
- acquit
- vindicate
- exonerate
- exculpate
Synonyms for taxnoun a compulsory contribution, usually of money, that is required for the support of a governmentSynonyms- assessment
- duty
- impost
- levy
- tariff
noun a duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardshipSynonyms- burden
- millstone
- onus
- weight
- headache
verb to place a burden or heavy load onSynonyms- burden
- charge
- cumber
- encumber
- freight
- lade
- load
- saddle
- weight
verb to force to workSynonymsverb to make an accusation againstSynonyms- accuse
- arraign
- charge
- denounce
- incriminate
- indict
verb to criticize for a fault or an offenseSynonyms- admonish
- call down
- castigate
- chastise
- chide
- dress down
- rap
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- scold
- upbraid
- bawl out
- lambaste
- chew out
Synonyms for taxnoun charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of governmentSynonyms- revenue enhancement
- taxation
Related Words- withholding
- imposition
- infliction
- accumulator
- collector
- gatherer
- net estate
- disposable income
- unearned income
- unearned revenue
- deductible
- budget items
- operating cost
- operating expense
- overhead
- levy
- single tax
- income tax
- capital gains tax
- capital levy
- departure tax
- franchise tax
- gift tax
- direct tax
- indirect tax
- hidden tax
- capitation
- graduated tax
- progressive tax
- proportional tax
- degressive tax
- rates
- stamp duty
- stamp tax
- pavage
- transfer tax
- special assessment
- charge
- progressive
- regressive
verb levy a tax onRelated Words- levy
- impose
- excise
- tariff
- surtax
- overtax
verb set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)SynonymsRelated Wordsverb use to the limitSynonymsRelated Wordsverb make a charge against or accuseRelated Words |