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See also: tax- and тах
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”.
Noun
tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy
- Antonym: subsidy
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- 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. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
- a heavy tax on time or health
- 1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234:
- 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 suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
- 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
- The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
- A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
- (obsolete) charge; censure
- 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, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Flie far from hence
All private taxes, immodest phrases,
What e'r may but shew like vicious.
Hyponyms
types of taxes
- carbon tax
- cheese tax
- church tax
- corporation tax
- customs, customs duty
- demographic tax
- duty
- estate tax
- excise, excise tax
- flat tax
- gift tax
- goods and services tax
- gross receipts tax
- head tax
- income tax
- inheritance tax
- land tax
- personal property tax
- piggyback tax
- Pigouvian tax, Pigovian tax
- poll tax
- property tax
- quindecim
- quinzieme
- real property tax
- sales tax
- sin tax
- sumptuary tax
- tariff
- transfer tax
- use tax
- utilities tax
- value added tax
Coordinate terms
other government revenues
Derived terms
- 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
- poll-tax
- posttax
- pre-tax
- pretax
- progressive tax
- real estate tax
- retax
- Robin Hood tax
- robot tax
- roof tax
- severance tax
- single-taxism
- sponge tax
- stamp tax
- stealth-tax
- stealth tax
- stereotype tax
- stupidity tax
- stupid tax
- subtax
- sunshine tax
- supertax
- sure as death and taxes
- sweetheart tax deal
- tartan tax
- tax abatement
- taxability
- tax accounting
- Taxachusetts
- taxaholic
- tax assessment
- tax auditor
- tax authority
- tax avoidance
- tax avoision
- tax base
- tax bite
- taxbite
- tax bracket
- tax break
- tax cart
- tax clinic
- tax collection
- tax collector
- tax credit
- tax cut
- Tax Day
- tax declaration
- tax-deductible
- tax-deferred
- tax disc
- tax dodge
- tax dodger
- tax due
- taxee
- tax evader
- tax evasion
- tax-exempt
- tax exile
- tax farming
- tax-farming
- taxflation
- tax fraud
- tax free, tax-free
- taxgatherer
- taxgathering
- tax haven
- tax hike
- tax incentive
- tax in kind
- tax law
- taxless
- taxlike
- tax lot
- taxman
- tax man
- taxocracy
- taxocrat
- tax office
- taxor
- taxpaid
- taxpayer
- taxpaying
- taxpayment
- tax point
- tax protester
- tax rate
- tax reduction
- tax relief
- tax resistance
- tax resister
- tax return
- tax revenue
- tax rise
- tax shelter
- tax-sheltered
- tax shield
- tax shift
- tax stamp
- tax swap
- tax time
- tax value
- tax wedge
- taxwise
- taxwoman
- tax year
- undertax
- untax
- value-added tax
- wealth tax
- wheel tax
- windfall tax
- Windows tax
- window tax
- withholding tax
Descendants
Translations
money paid to the government
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Etymology 2
From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).
Verb
tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251:
- Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- Do not tax my patience.
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
- 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.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
Derived terms
Translations
to impose and collect a tax
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Anagrams
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Latin
Alternative forms
Interjection
tax
- an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
References
- “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
tax
- alternative form of taxe
Etymology 2
Verb
tax
- alternative form of taxen
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tax f (Arabic spelling تاخ)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973), “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 598
- Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b
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Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
tax c
- a dachshund (dog breed)
Declension
Derived terms
References
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