tax
/tæks/
tax noun: 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).
Noun
tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
- 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).
- [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.2008, Kunzang Choden, Chilli and Cheese: Food and Society in Bhutan, page 147
- 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[…]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
- 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.
- Flie far from hence
All private taxes, immodest phrases,
What e'r may but shew like vicious.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... - 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].2023 November 20, Kates Kennery, Pet Cook Book First Edition - Dog and Cat fresh food options plus meals, Kates Kennery
- Flie far from hence
- A burdensome demand
- a heavy tax on time or health
- 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...1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234
Verb
tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251
- To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
- To make excessive demands on.
- Do not tax my patience.
- The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner.1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC
- To accuse.
- To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
tax meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tax in Hindi
- money paid to the government
- कर kar, टैक्स ṭaiks
- to impose and collect a tax
- उगाही ugāhī
tax in Tamil
- money paid to the government
- வரி vari
tax in Marathi
- tax
- कर kar
tax in Urdu
- money paid to the government
- مالِیات māliyāt, ٹَیکْس ṭaiks, مَحْصُول mahsūl, باج bāj, خَراج xarāj
More languagesFewer languages
- tax in Bengali
- কর kor
- tax in Telugu
- పన్ను pannu
- tax in Malayalam
- കരം karaṁ, നികുതി nikuti
- tax in Kannada
- ತೆರಿಗೆ terige
- tax in Punjabi
- ਟੈਕਸ
- tax in Gujarati
- જકાત jakāt, હપતો hapto, ચુંગી cuṅgī, ધારો dhāro
- tax in Odia
- ଟିକଟ ṭikaṭa
- tax in Sanskrit
- कर kara
- tax in Sinhala
- බදු badu
- tax in Assamese
- কৰ kor
- tax in Nepali
- कर kar
- tax in Pashto
- مالیه mālya, باج bāj, ماليات mālyāt
- tax in Tagalog
- buwis
- tax in Arabic
- ضَرِيبَة ḍarība
- tax in Malay
- cukai
- tax in Indonesian
- pajak, cukai
- tax in Thai
- ภาษี paa-sǐi
- tax in Vietnamese
- thuế
- tax in Myanmar
- အကောက် a.kauk, အခွန် a.hkwan
Examples of tax in a sentence
- 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.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
- The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
- But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.2007 January 16, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, in IDEAS from IBM:
Synonyms of tax
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Antonyms
Forms of tax
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | taxes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | taxes |
| present participle | taxing |
| past participle | taxed |
| past | taxed |
Origin of tax
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”.
From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).
Words formed from tax
- 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
Phrases with tax
147 more phrasesFewer phrases
- head tax
- land tax
- poll tax
- road tax
- roof tax
- tax base
- tax bite
- tax cart
- tax cuts
- Tax Days
- tax disc
- tax disk
- tax free
- tax hike
- tax laws
- tax lots
- tax rate
- tax rise
- tax swap
- tax time
- tax year
- robot tax
- sales tax
- stamp tax
- tax bases
- tax bites
- tax break
- tax carts
- tax discs
- tax disks
- tax dodge
- tax exile
- tax fraud
- tax haven
- tax hikes
- tax point
- tax rates
- tax rises
- tax shift
- tax stamp
- tax swaps
- tax value
- tax wedge
- tax years
- wheel tax
- cheese tax
- church tax
- estate tax
- excise tax
- income tax
- sponge tax
- stupid tax
- tartan tax
- tax breaks
- tax clinic
- tax credit
- tax dodger
- tax dodges
- tax evader
- tax exiles
- tax frauds
- tax havens
- tax office
- tax points
- tax relief
- tax return
- tax season
- tax shield
- tax shifts
- tax stamps
- tax values
- tax wedges
- wealth tax
- window tax
- stealth tax
- tax auditor
- tax bracket
- tax clinics
- tax credits
- tax dodgers
- tax evaders
- tax evasion
- tax farming
- tax offices
- tax returns
- tax revenue
- tax shelter
- tax shields
- tax wrapper
- Windows tax
- Pigovian tax
- property tax
- sunshine tax
- tax assessor
- tax auditors
- tax avoision
- tax brackets
- tax resister
- tax revenues
- tax shelters
- tax wrappers
- transfer tax
- windfall tax
- Australia Tax
- milkshake tax
- piggyback tax
- Pigouvian tax
- severance tax
- stupidity tax
- sumptuary tax
- tax abatement
- tax assessors
- tax authority
- tax avoidance
- tax collector
- tax incentive
- tax inspector
- tax protester
- tax reduction
- tax resisters
- utilities tax
- Robin Hood tax
- stereotype tax
- tax abatements
- tax accounting
- tax assessment
- tax collection
- tax collectors
- tax efficiency
- tax horsepower
- tax incentives
- tax inspectors
- tax protesters
- tax reductions
- tax resistance
- volatility tax
- corporation tax
- demographic tax
- inheritance tax
- progressive tax
- real estate tax
- real-estate tax
- tax assessments
- tax authorities
- tax collections
- tax declaration
- tax file number
Words that rhyme with tax
Questions about tax
- What does tax mean?
- Tax means 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).
- What is tax in Hindi?
- Tax in Hindi is कर (kar), टैक्स (ṭaiks), उगाही (ugāhī). See Tax meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use tax in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is tax?
- Tax can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tax?
- Tax is pronounced /tæks/.
- What is the plural of tax?
- The plural of tax is taxes.
Words near tax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tax (page history and authors); कर (Marathi) (page history and authors); ತೆರಿಗೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); tax (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ચુંગી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଟିକଟ (Odia) (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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