How do you use the word "tax" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "tax" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "tax": The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises. In general, people were against the consumption tax.

Tax Meaning

/tæks/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounMoney or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).

nounA charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.

Sentence Examples

The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises.

In general, people were against the consumption tax.

His declared aim was to tax the rich.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

task assess taxation

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The government collects a ____ from every worker to fund public schools and roads.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We have to pay a small ____ on almost every product we buy to help fund several important public services today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres." — 2008, Kunzang Choden, Chilli and Cheese: Food and Society in Bhutan, page 147:

"The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic[…]" — 2010 December 6, Madison Smartt Bell, Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 5:

"In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised." — 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

"Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious." — 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

"Scrambled egg with cheese [...] careful with the cheese here because it is the main reason for Roxie's runs... [but] We pay a lot of cheese tax in the house [i.e., when we eat cheese, the dog demands to also be given some]." — 2023 November 20, Kates Kennery, Pet Cook Book First Edition - Dog and Cat fresh food options plus meals, Kates Kennery:

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