sumptuary taxes
sumptuary taxes is the plural of sumptuary tax.
Meaning of sumptuary tax
Noun
sumptuary tax (plural sumptuary taxes)
- A government levy on goods considered to be socially undesirable goods or nonessential luxuries, most commonly alcohol and tobacco.
- The author seems favourable to a tax on dress, when, exceeding the limits of necessity and decency, it luxuriates in finery and ornament. A tax which should fall only on the superfluous embellishments, and costliness, of apparel would be a sumptuary tax, and might form a new source of supply to the...1810, “[review of] What is the Influence of the different Species of Taxation on the Morality, the Activity, and the Industry of Nations? By M. de Monthion, formerly Counsellor of State. Paris”, in...
- Synonyms:
- sin tax
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