tax
verb/tæks/
/tæks/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they tax | /tæks/ /tæks/ |
| he / she / it taxes | /ˈtæksɪz/ /ˈtæksɪz/ |
| past simple taxed | /tækst/ /tækst/ |
| past participle taxed | /tækst/ /tækst/ |
| -ing form taxing | /ˈtæksɪŋ/ /ˈtæksɪŋ/ |
- to put a tax on somebody/something; to make somebody pay tax
- tax somebody/something His declared aim was to tax the rich.
- Cigarettes are heavily taxed by the government.
- Any interest payments are taxed as part of your income.
- Luxury goods are taxed at a rate of 20%.
- be taxed on something You will be taxed on all your income.
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyb1- Drinks would be taxed according to their alcoholic strength.
- Many self-employed people are heavily taxed.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- highly
- lightly
- …
- according to
- at
- on
- …
- tax something (British English) to pay tax on a vehicle so that you may use it on the roads
- The car is taxed until July.
- tax somebody/something to need a great amount of physical or mental effort
- The questions did not tax me.
- The problem is currently taxing the brains of the nation's experts (= making them think very hard).
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’.
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