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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : taks
Phonetic Transcription : tæks



Definition of taxes

Origin :
  • early 14c., "obligatory contribution levied by a sovereign or government," from Anglo-French tax, Old French taxe, and directly from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxare (see tax (v.)). Related: taxes. Tax shelter is attested from 1961.
  • noun charge levied by government on property, income
  • noun burden
  • verb levy charge on property, income
  • verb burden
  • verb accuse
Example sentences :
  • The greater part of these taxes, however, do not belong to the King personally.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • They served the King faithfully as officers in his army and as collectors of his taxes.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • It takes a lifetime, Mr. Vavasor, to learn where to pay our taxes.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but wars raised to carry on taxes.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • To be a receiver of taxes one need not know either Greek or Latin.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • The death of the receiver of taxes had satiated the soldiers.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • You don't have to pay rates and taxes, and a hundred other things that they do.
  • Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • In the first place it was fairly cheap-forty pounds, or fifty with taxes.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • He wanted to know if we'd got this year's taxes on the Whittaker place.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Too well they knew that the tyrant had done nothing for his subjects but take their taxes.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine

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