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noun

Tax n.

A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically:

(a)

A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. "A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious."

(b)

Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like. Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc.

(c)

A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

Charge; censure. (Obs.)

A lesson to be learned; a task. (Obs.)

Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. (Eng.)

Synonyms: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.

verb

Tax v. t. (past & past part. taxed; pres. part. taxing)

To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government. "We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government."

(Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride. "I tax you, you elements, with unkindness." "Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes." "Fear not now that men should tax thine honor."

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"Tax" Quotes from Famous Books

... might say to them, that is, to her gentle kith and kin, 'whilk o' ye was her best friend, when she came down the glen to Glendearg in a misty evening, on a beast mair like a cuddie than aught else?'—And if they tax him with churl's blood, Edward might say, that, forby the ...

— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... man would do it. But it is only some of the Bay of Fundy boys that are up to that dodge. Smugglers in general haven't the courage to do that. Dear me!" sais I to myself, "when was there ever a law that couldn't be evaded; a tax that couldn't be shuffled off like an old slipper; a prohibition that a smuggler couldn't row right straight through, or a treaty that hadn't more holes in it than a dozen supplemental ones could ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... owner had gulped down a bowl of water. The smell of a thousand cooking-pots now came to them over the walls of the mosque. Because of it, Abdalla's command to the crowd to leave had been easier of acceptance. Their hunger had made them dangerous. Danger was in the air. The tax-gatherers had lately gone their rounds, and the agents of the Mouffetish had wielded the kourbash without mercy and to some purpose. It was perhaps lucky that the incident had occurred within smell of the evening feasts and near the sounding ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... a long, heavy wooden stock in Bontoc pueblo in which the Igorot were imprisoned. Igorot women were made the mistresses of both officers and soldiers. Work, food, fuel, and lumber were not always paid for. All persons 18 or more years old were required to pay an annual tax of 50 cents or an equivalent value in rice. A day's wage was only 5 cents, so each family was required to pay an equivalent of twenty days' labor annually. In wild towns the principal men were told to bring in so many thousand bunches of palay — the ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

... a hand in his face, shutting him up. "Why should I care what happens to the girl?" I said, getting up. "Just make sure Horace pays us a fat fee. After all, it's tax exempt." ...

— Modus Vivendi • Gordon Randall Garrett

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