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tax wedge

tax wedge noun: the difference between the price that includes all taxes and the untaxed price of a good, particularly the difference between the employer's labour cost and the employee's take-home pay.

Noun

tax wedge (plural tax wedges)

  1. The difference between the price that includes all taxes and the untaxed price of a good, particularly the difference between the employer's labour cost and the employee's take-home pay.

Forms of tax wedge

pluraltax wedges

Questions about tax wedge

What does tax wedge mean?
Tax wedge means the difference between the price that includes all taxes and the untaxed price of a good, particularly the difference between the employer's labour cost and the employee's take-home pay.
What part of speech is tax wedge?
Tax wedge is a noun.
What is the plural of tax wedge?
The plural of tax wedge is tax wedges.

Words near tax wedge in the dictionary

  1. tax swap
  2. tax swaps
  3. tax time
  4. tax value
  5. tax values
  6. tax wedge
  7. tax wedges
  8. tax wrapper
  9. tax wrappers
  10. tax year
  11. tax years

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