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tax collection

tax collection

6 3.3
The work of getting money from people and businesses for the government
  • noun
  • /tæks kəˈlɛkʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : recaudación de impuestos
  • Effective tax collection is essential for funding public services and infrastructure.
  • improved tax collection
  • increased tax collection
  • state tax collection

Examples

  • Government spending has remained within budgetary targets, and improved tax collection rates have resulted in higher than projected domestic tax revenues.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Nor was this the only public defiance of tax collection in Uganda.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Moreover, the system now depends on the very corruption that makes tax collection so difficult.

    Academic text (2000)

  • People kept cash in their homes, especially as tax collection time neared.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The manner and speed with which this matching is handled is unprecedented in the history of tax collection.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Nevada and Amazon.com, Inc. entered into an agreement with sales tax collection compliance beginning July 1, 2013.

    Academic text (2017)

  • In colonial Africa, the employment of the chieftaincy for tax collection was quite damaging to the chiefs' prestige.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Thus, for instance, in FY 2001, Colorado was 36th in the nation in per capita state tax collections.

    Academic text (2006)

  • As a result of efficiency of efficiency, gains in tax collection and effort to fight tax evasion, tax revenues in Ecuador have tripled.

  • The absence of a cadastral database like Jordan's has hampered tax collection and hindered upgrading.

    Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

taxation
vstax collection
80 4.0

A system for making people and businesses pay money to the government

is the specific act of collecting that money rather than the broader system

Antonyms

tax evasion
  • Formal
32 5.3

Not paying taxes on purpose by hiding income or lying to tax officials

How Forceful

distrainment
  • UK
9.9
tax collection
  • Formal
6 3.3
tax obligation
  • Specialized
1 4.1

Surface Forms

tax collection singular
tax collections plural

Morphology

tax + collection

The meaning 'the process of collecting taxes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tax' (a government charge) with 'collection' (the process of gathering). This straightforward noun+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Tax collection comes from the simple image of people or officials gathering money that citizens must pay. The word tax is the money people must pay and collection is the act of gathering it, so the phrase means 'the process of collecting taxes'.