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PROGRESSIVE TAX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does progressive tax mean?
• PROGRESSIVE TAX (noun)
The noun PROGRESSIVE TAX has 1 sense:
1. any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases
Familiarity information: PROGRESSIVE TAX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
graduated tax; progressive tax
Hypernyms ("progressive tax" is a kind of...):
revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)
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