taxnoun [ C or U ]
uk/tæks/us/tæks/B1 (an amount of) money paid to the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought:
They're increasing the tax on cigarettes.
Tax cuts (= reductions in taxes) are always popular.
What do you earn before/after tax (= before/after you have paid tax on the money you earn)?
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- A person's gross income is the money they earn before tax is deducted from it.
- The government have promised that they'll reduce taxes.
- The government will pay for the new schools by increasing the tax on luxury goods.
- Do you pay less tax if you're self-employed?
- The Chancellor has increased the tax on alcohol again.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taxation
- capital gains tax
- capitation
- chargeable
- corporation tax
- custom
- indirect tax
- inheritance tax
- levy
- National Insurance
- octroi
- rateable value
- tax avoidance
- tax break
- tax credit
- tax exile
- tax-deductible
- tax-exempt
- VATable
- welfare state
- withholding tax
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taxverb [ T ]
uk/tæks/us/tæks/tax verb [ T ] (MONEY)
C1 to make someone pay a tax:
Husbands and wives may be taxed jointly/separately.
More examples
- There was great opposition to plans to tax books.
- All subjects were taxed by the king.
- Any amount over this figure will be taxed.
- She is not taxed on these earnings because they are so low.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taxation
- capital gains tax
- capitation
- chargeable
- corporation tax
- custom
- indirect tax
- inheritance tax
- levy
- National Insurance
- octroi
- rateable value
- tax avoidance
- tax break
- tax credit
- tax exile
- tax-deductible
- tax-exempt
- VATable
- welfare state
- withholding tax
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tax verb [ T ] (NEED EFFORT)
to need someone to make a lot of effort, either physical or mental:
He only has to read a short report - it shouldn't tax him too much.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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