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Taxation

noun

Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government. Synonyms: revenue enhancement, tax.

Government income due to taxation. Synonyms: revenue, tax income, tax revenue.

The imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state.

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"Taxation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Englishmen were willing to put up with him. As between him and the brilliant Stuart there would have been no hesitation had the choice been merely one of men; but it was believed that the return of the Stuarts meant the return of something like absolute government, of taxation without sanction of law, and of religious persecution. Under the Hanoverian George the English people had begun to exercise a considerable measure of self-government. Sharp opposition in Parliament compelled him time and again ...

— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr

... end, the Secretary of State, himself one of the plaintiffs, had negotiated the treaty then before the Senate, of the terms of which the defendants had been kept in utter ignorance, and by means of which the principle of taxation without representation was now ...

— Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition • Henry C. Carey

... The speaker's voice rose in shrill protest against the exploitation of 'the people'; it sank in ironical comment on Christianity; it demanded passionately to be free from the continuous burden of 'this insensate militarist taxation'; it threatened that the people would take ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... head. After depositing $1,400,000 in chartered banks as evidence of good faith, they offered to build the road for $3,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres less, to pay duty on all supplies imported, and to abandon the monopoly clause, the exemptions from taxation, and the exemption from rate regulation. With this weapon to brandish Blake gave the government proposal no respite, but on a straight party vote the contract was ratified by parliament and received the formal royal ...

— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton

... the financial requirements of his colleagues is a mystery. The cost of the siege amounts in hard cash to about L20,000,000. To meet the daily draw on the exchequer no public loan has been negotiated, and nothing is raised by taxation. The monthly instalments which have been paid on the September loan cannot altogether amount to very much, consequently the greater portion of this large sum can only have been obtained by a loan from the bank and by bons de tresor (exchequer ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

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