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Tax

noun
1.
Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.  Synonyms: revenue enhancement, taxation.
verb
(past & past part. taxed; pres. part. taxing)
1.
Levy a tax on.  "Clothing is not taxed in our state"
2.
Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine).  Synonym: assess.
3.
Use to the limit.  Synonym: task.
4.
Make a charge against or accuse.



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"Tax" Quotes from Famous Books



... ended as it began with war on France and Scotland, but with little success. The government was put to dire straits to raise money. A forced loan of 10 per cent. on property was exacted in 1542 and repudiated by law the next year. An income tax rising from four pence to two shillings in the pound on goods and from eight pence to three shillings on revenue from land, was imposed. Crown lands were sold or mortgaged. The last and most disastrous expedient was the debasement of the coinage, the old equivalent of the modern issue of ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... the solution of it has been repeatedly attempted, with no other result than to crowd our lunatic asylums with the would-be solvers. Hence, after fruitless attempts to suppress such investigations indirectly by making them liable to a heavy tax, the Legislature, in comparatively recent times, absolutely prohibited them. I—alas, I alone in Flatland—know now only too well the true solution of this mysterious problem; but my knowledge cannot be made intelligible to a single one of my countrymen; and ...
— Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) • Edwin A. Abbott
... John, resentfully, "we'd changed our State constitution so's to forbid the levy of any school tax by a county or township except on ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... raised by a charitable contribution; and, though this way may seem uncertain, yet so merciful are the inclinations of that people, that they are plentifully supplied by it; but in other places public revenues are set aside for them, or there is a constant tax or poll-money raised for their maintenance. In some places they are set to no public work, but every private man that has occasion to hire workmen goes to the market-places and hires them of the public, a little lower than he would do a freeman. If they go lazily about their task he ...
— Utopia • Thomas More
... "With hut-tax, traders' game and mining licenses, not more than fourteen thousand rupees; every penny of it ear-marked ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling


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