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sales tax

sales tax noun: a local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer and collected by the seller for the local or state authorities.

Noun

sales tax (countable and uncountable, plural sales taxes)

  1. A local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer and collected by the seller for the local or state authorities.
  2. A use tax or a combination of a sales tax and a use tax.
    • They had to pay sales tax on a car they bought out of state.

sales tax meaning in Tamil and Kannada

sales tax in Tamil

விற்பனை வரி

sales tax in Kannada

ಮಾರಾಟ ತೆರಿಗೆ

Forms of sales tax

pluralsales taxes

Questions about sales tax

What does sales tax mean?
Sales tax means a local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer and collected by the seller for the local or state authorities.
What is sales tax in Tamil?
Sales tax in Tamil is விற்பனை வரி. See Sales tax meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sales tax?
Sales tax is a noun.
What is the plural of sales tax?
The plural of sales tax is sales taxes.

Words near sales tax in the dictionary

  1. sales resistance
  2. sales slip
  3. sales slips
  4. sales talk
  5. sales talks
  6. sales tax
  7. sales taxes
  8. sales team
  9. sales teams
  10. sales volume
  11. sales volumes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sales tax (page history and authors); sales tax (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sales tax (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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