(an amount of) money paid lớn the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought:
 

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(an amount of) money paid to lớn the government, usually a percentage of personal income or of the cost of goods or services bought:
A tax refund is money returned khổng lồ you from the government because you have paid more than you needed lớn for a particular year.
an amount paid khổng lồ the government based on a person"s income, a company’s profits, the value of goods and services, etc, or this money considered together:
avoid/evade/escape tax Huge companies have the money khổng lồ pay lawyers who advise them on ways lớn avoid tax.
increase/put up/raise taxes Many of the opposition"s proposals will be very difficult lớn achieve without raising taxes.
introduce/impose/levy a tax (on sth) The city has levied a tax of €1,000 on any SUVs registered khổng lồ city-center addresses.

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tax cuts/increases/rises The government must tighten its budget next year lớn offset poorly timed tax cuts.
to make people or businesses pay an amount of money to the government from the money they earn, or when they buy goods or services:
In practice the pace of expenditure và deficit reduction was in advance of that planned & as a consequence tax relaxation was possible.
Thus, the spending of the new pesticide tax proceeds, lớn a great extent, would redistribute money from conventional to organic farming.
Public policy remains important for the third tier though, in terms both of tax treatment and regulation.
An inefficient tax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it.
Still, a public economist would remind us that looking at whether environmental tax swaps increase employment or not tells us nothing about social welfare.
This should rather have strengthened their original support for the tax, instead of turning them against it.
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