TAX (taxes)

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Irregular inflected form: taxes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tax mean? 

• TAX (noun)
  The noun TAX has 1 sense:

1. charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

  Familiarity information: TAX used as a noun is very rare.

• TAX (verb)
  The verb TAX has 4 senses:

1. levy a tax on

2. set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

3. use to the limit

4. make a charge against or accuse

  Familiarity information: TAX used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation

Hypernyms ("tax" is a kind of...):

levy (a charge imposed and collected)

Domain member category:

imposition; infliction (the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo))

charge (financial liabilities (such as a tax))

deductible (acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction))

progressive ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases)

regressive ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases)

budget items; operating cost; operating expense; overhead (the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes)

deductible ((taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax))

unearned income; unearned revenue (personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income))

disposable income (income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending)

net estate (the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes))

accumulator; collector; gatherer (a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes))

withholding (the act of deducting from an employee's salary)

hidden tax (a tax paid unwittingly by the consumer (such as ad valorem taxes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tax"):

income tax (a personal tax levied on annual income)

special assessment (an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property)

transfer tax (any tax levied on the passing of title to property)

pavage (a tax toward paving streets)

stamp duty; stamp tax (a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications))

rates (a local tax on property (usually used in the plural))

degressive tax (any tax in which the rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases)

proportional tax (any tax in which the rate is constant as the amount subject to taxation increases)

graduated tax; progressive tax (any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases)

capitation (a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person)

indirect tax (a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations)

direct tax (a tax paid directly by the person or organization on whom it is levied)

gift tax (a tax imposed on transfers of property by gift during the lifetime of the giver)

franchise tax (a tax that is imposed by states on corporations; it depends both on the net worth of the corporation and on its net income attributable to activities within the state)

departure tax (a tax that is levied when you are departing a country by land or sea or air)

capital levy (a tax on capital or property)

capital gains tax (a tax on capital gains)

single tax (a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land))

Derivation:

tax (levy a tax on)

• TAX (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tax    ... he / she / it taxes   
Past simple: taxed   
Past participle: taxed   
-ing form: taxing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Levy a tax on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Clothing is not taxed in our state

Hypernyms (to "tax" is one way to...):

impose; levy (impose and collect)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tax"):

excise (levy an excise tax on)

tariff (charge a tariff)

surtax (levy an extra tax on)

overtax (tax excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tax (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

taxable ((of goods or funds) subject to taxation)

taxation (the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state)

taxation (government income due to taxation)

taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

taxer (a bureaucrat who levies taxes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

assess; tax

Hypernyms (to "tax" is one way to...):

determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)

Verb group:

assess (charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Use to the limit

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

task; tax

Context example:

you are taxing my patience

Hypernyms (to "tax" is one way to...):

extend; strain (use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a charge against or accuse

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

They taxed him failure to appear in court

Hypernyms (to "tax" is one way to...):

charge (make an accusatory claim)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

 Context examples 

“It's dear,” he said, “on account of the duty. Threepence. That's the way we're taxed in this country. There's nothing else, except the waiter. Never mind the ink. I lose by that.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And one day Ugh-Gluk taxed him with witchcraft to his face.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Tax gene of the HTLV-I virus.

(HTLV-I TAX Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Tax gene of the HTLV-II virus.

(HTLV-II TAX Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

On the other hand, their common folk are so crushed down with gabelle, and poll-tax, and every manner of cursed tallage, that the spirit has passed right out of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She taxed me with the offence at once, and my confusion may be guessed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It also rules money you owe, such as for estimated taxes, tuition, a down payment on a house, and other large checks you might write that come up occasionally.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determined by their own judgment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If it’s on the market I’ll buy it—if it means another penny on the income-tax.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Assembling tax records, business affairs, or papers.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Assemble, NCI Thesaurus)