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taxation

taxation

80 4.0
A system for making people and businesses pay money to the government
  • noun
  • /tækˈseɪʃən/
translation icon : imposición de impuestos
  • Many people are unaware of how taxation affects their daily lives and finances.
  • income taxation
  • system of taxation
  • taxation policy

And so it becomes a way to spread the taxation across everybody.

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Examples

  • If you think about it, taxation amounts to the taking of earnings.

  • The nature of the inefficiency of taxation can be illustrated by way of a simple example.

    Academic text (2017)
  • And so it becomes a way to spread the taxation across everybody.

  • How many of you actually know how the taxation system works?

  • The third source of taxation is consumption taxation.

  • And the lack of taxation of the rich creates a big problem with flows of wealth.

  • We could use the marketplace through taxation to really shape purchasing behaviors.

  • Resident aliens are subject to U.S. estate and gift taxation on worldwide assets.

    Academic text (1990)
  • After years of civil unrest, the treasuries were stable once more and taxation could begin again.

  • No taxation without representation!

Synonyms

tax revenue
vstaxation
53 3.2

Money a government gets from taxes on people, businesses, or sales

also refers to the system and procedures that produce that money
tax system
vstaxation
30 3.6

Rules a government uses to set and collect taxes from people and businesses

is the broader idea covering both the collection process and the money raised
tax collection
vstaxation
  • Formal
6 3.3

The work of getting money from people and businesses for the government

is the full framework of rules and revenue, not only the gathering process
tax income
vstaxation
5 3.0

Money a government gets from taxes people and businesses pay

is wider, covering both the legal process and the income collected

How Taxed

overtaxation
1 6.9
taxation
80 4.0
indirect tax
1 3.7

Surface Forms

taxation singular
taxations plural

Morphology

taxation = tax (transparent) = tax + ation

The word is a standard suffixal derivation from 'tax', meaning the act or process of taxing.

Etymology

Taxation comes from the old Latin verb taxare, which meant 'to estimate' or 'to judge', and it gives us the simple English word tax. Think of it as the government 'measuring' how much money people or businesses must pay. So, taxation is the system for collecting those charges.