taxable

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.

▶verb

• 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.

– origin ME: from OFr. taxer, from L. taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perh. from Gk tassein ‘fix’.