tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăks
ipa: /tæks/
homophone: tacks
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: taxes
Etymology: From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.
Senses: examples: text: [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.
ref: 2008, Kunzang Choden, Chilli and Cheese: Food and Society in Bhutan, page 147:
text: The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic[…]
ref: 2010 December 6, Madison Smartt Bell, Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 5:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
synonyms: impost
tribute
contribution
duty
toll
rate
assessment
exaction
custom
demand
levy
antonyms: subsidy
glosses: Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
examples: text: Flie far from hence
All private taxes, immodest phrases,
What e'r may but shew like vicious.
ref: 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Scrambled egg with cheese [...] careful with the cheese here because it is the main reason for Roxie's runs... [but] We pay a lot of cheese tax in the house [i.e., when we eat cheese, the dog demands to also be given some].
ref: 2023 November 20, Kates Kennery, Pet Cook Book First Edition - Dog and Cat fresh food options plus meals, Kates Kennery:
glosses: A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
examples: text: a heavy tax on time or health
text: In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
ref: 1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234:
text: The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
glosses: A burdensome demand;
Hyponyms: sense: types of taxes
word: carbon tax
sense: types of taxes
word: cheese tax
sense: types of taxes
word: church tax
sense: types of taxes
word: corporation tax
sense: types of taxes
word: customs
sense: types of taxes
word: customs duty
sense: types of taxes
word: demographic tax
sense: types of taxes
word: duty
sense: types of taxes
word: estate tax
sense: types of taxes
word: e-tax
sense: types of taxes
word: excise
sense: types of taxes
word: excise tax
sense: types of taxes
word: flat tax
sense: types of taxes
word: gift tax
sense: types of taxes
word: goods and services tax
sense: types of taxes
word: gross receipts tax
sense: types of taxes
word: head tax
sense: types of taxes
word: income tax
sense: types of taxes
word: inheritance tax
sense: types of taxes
word: land tax
sense: types of taxes
word: personal property tax
sense: types of taxes
word: piggyback tax
sense: types of taxes
word: Pigouvian tax
sense: types of taxes
word: Pigovian tax
sense: types of taxes
word: poll tax
sense: types of taxes
word: property tax
sense: types of taxes
word: quindecim
sense: types of taxes
word: quinzieme
sense: types of taxes
word: real property tax
sense: types of taxes
word: sales tax
sense: types of taxes
word: sin tax
sense: types of taxes
word: sumptuary tax
sense: types of taxes
word: tariff
sense: types of taxes
word: transfer tax
sense: types of taxes
word: use tax
sense: types of taxes
word: utilities tax
sense: types of taxes
word: value added tax
Coordinate terms: sense: other government revenues
word: fine
sense: other government revenues
word: license fee
sense: other government revenues
word: penalty
sense: other government revenues
word: seigniorage
sense: other government revenues
word: user charge
Derived terms: ad valorem tax
after-tax
alignment tax
alternative minimum tax
antitax
Apple tax
bedroom tax
black tax
blood tax
blood-tax
Cadillac tax
capital gains tax
carbon tax
cat tax
certain as death and taxes
corporate tax
council tax
death and taxes
death tax
deposit interest retention tax
detax
direct tax
indirect tax
dog tax
double tax agreement
dumb tax
ecotax
fart tax
fat tax
flat rate tax
flatulence tax
fortax
goods and sales tax
Google tax
graduate tax
granny tax
green tax
hearth tax
hidden tax
hut tax
hypertax
idiot tax
income tax return
iPod tax
Jewish tax
kiddie tax
kosher tax
loyalty tax
luxury tax
Microsoft tax
millage tax
mistax
mommy tax
negative income tax
nontax
nuisance tax
overtax
pasty tax
payroll tax
pink tax
poll-tax
posttax
pretax
pre-tax
progressive tax
real estate tax
retax
road tax
Robin Hood tax
robot tax
roof tax
severance tax
single-taxism
sponge tax
stamp tax
stealth-tax
stealth tax
stereotype tax
stupidity tax
stupid tax
subtax
sunshine tax
supertax
sure as death and taxes
sweetheart tax deal
tartan tax
tax abatement
taxability
tax accounting
Taxachusetts
taxaholic
tax assessment
tax auditor
tax authority
tax avoidance
tax avoision
tax base
taxbite
tax bite
tax bracket
tax break
tax cart
tax clinic
tax collection
tax collector
tax credit
tax cut
Tax Day
tax declaration
tax-deductible
tax-deferred
tax disc
tax disk
tax dodge
tax dodger
tax due
taxee
tax efficiency
tax-efficient
tax evader
tax evasion
tax-exempt
tax exile
tax-farming
tax farming
taxflation
tax fraud
tax free
tax-free
taxgatherer
taxgathering
tax haven
tax hike
tax horsepower
tax incentive
tax inspector
tax law
taxless
taxlike
tax lot
taxman
tax man
taxocracy
taxocrat
tax office
taxor
taxpaid
taxpayer
taxpaying
taxpayment
tax point
tax protester
tax rate
tax reduction
tax relief
tax resistance
tax resister
tax return
tax revenue
tax rise
tax shelter
tax-sheltered
tax shield
tax shift
tax stamp
tax swap
tax time
tax value
tax wedge
taxwise
taxwoman
tax wrapper
tax year
undertax
untax
value-added tax
wealth tax
wheel tax
windfall tax
Windows tax
window tax
withholding tax