Taxation
[tæk'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [tæk'seʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state.
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Definition
(n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
(n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
(n.) Tax; sum imposed.
(n.) Charge; accusation.
Checker: Mae
Examples
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But to avoid taxation it must be rendered unfit for drinking by the addition of such unpalatable substances as wood alcohol, pyridin, benzola, sulphuric ether or animal oil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the taxation of unimproved property happens at the same time to be a splendid weapon against the slum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ground-rents seem, in this respect, a more proper subject of peculiar taxation, than even the ordinary rent of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- War expenditure increased everywhere and called for more and more taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Salt is a very ancient and a very universal subject of taxation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those modes of taxation by stamp duties and by duties upon registration, are of very modern invention. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The French system of taxation seems, in every respect, inferior to the British. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It would come just as much from a radical program of land taxation, factory reform, or trust control. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The wealth and luxury of the higher clergy and the heavy papal taxation were the chief grounds of complaint. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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