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Tax
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Tax definitions
noun
tax
taxes
- a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions
"higher taxes will dampen consumer spending"
- a strain or heavy demand
"a heavy tax on the reader's attention"
verb
tax
taxed
taxes
taxing
- impose a tax on (someone or something)
"the income will be taxed at the top rate"
levy a tax on impose a toll on charge duty on exact a tax on demand a tax on- pay tax on (something, especially a vehicle)
"the Land Rover slowly disintegrates and no one has bothered to tax it"
- make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources)
"she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength"
- confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing
"why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?"
- examine and assess (the costs of a case)
"an officer taxing a bill of costs"