tax
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tax/taks/
▶noun
- 1 a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on personal income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
- 2 a strain or heavy demand.
- 1 impose a tax on.
■ pay tax on (a vehicle).
- 2 make heavy demands on.
- 3 accuse of a fault or wrongdoing: why are you taxing me with these allegations?
- 4 Law examine and assess (the costs of a case).
– derivatives
taxable adjective,
taxer noun.
taxable adjective,
taxer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. taxer, from L. taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perh. from Gk tassein ‘fix’.
'tax' also found in these Oxford entries:
ACT
- ad valorem
- aid
- allowance
- assess
- back door
- black money
- capital gains tax
- capital levy
- capitation
- carbon tax
- card
- census
- cess
- CGT
- community charge
- concession
- corporation tax
- council tax
- countervailing duty
- Danegeld
- death duty
- death tax
- deed of covenant
- direct tax
- dodger
- enterprise zone
- estate duty
- evade
- exchequer
- excise
- exempt
- exigible
- farm
- financial year
- franked investment income
- -free
- gross
- GST
- hate
- holiday
- IHT
- impost
- incidence
- income tax
- inheritance tax
- inland revenue
- inspector of taxes
- ISA
- Laffer curve
