(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(4) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(5) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(6) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(8) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(9) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(10) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(11) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(12) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(13) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(15) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(16) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(17) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(18) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(19) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(20) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
Tithe
Definition:
(n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
(n.) Hence, a small part or proportion.
(a.) Tenth.
(v. t.) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
(v. i.) Tp pay tithes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(2) All five cell lines had small deposits of intramembraneous alkaline phosphatase in the plasma membrane and deposits associated tith the mitochondrial membranes and the endoplasmic reticulum that were not completely inhibited by phenylalanine or Levamisole.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) By the end of 2003, Christ Fellowship was the church where we regularly attended services,” he recalls in American Son, “and the church we tithed to as well.
(5) A request to his campaign to clarify whether he still tithes to the church was not returned at time of publication.
(6) But this is hardly what we think of as "social enterprise" – it looks more like a kind of feudalism, run on tithes and tributes and grudging sense of noblesse oblige .
(7) What's demolished: Harmondsworth Moor, Harmondsworth, and Longford - 950 homes, and the Tithe Barn and St Mary's Church in Harmondsworth, both sites of significant heritage value.
(8) This alone is an impressive list of publications and public awards, but is a mere tithe of Carpenter's extraordinary output, which also includes magnificently researched histories of the BBC Third programme, the postwar English satire movement, American writers in Paris between the wars, the Brideshead generation, and the 'angry young men', as well as an Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
(9) But the Conservatives clearly don’t value all inheritances, for all their noise about the evils of inheritance tax, a tithe on extreme wealth that in practice afflicts barely anyone.
(10) He tithed, donating part of his salary to his local Pentecostal church, and fasted once a week.
(11) This is what coffee can be – what coffee is – that makes artisanal devotees travel, tithe and tip for what we could never, ever get at Starbucks .
(12) I'd like to see a movement of older people helping younger people and that might take all sorts of forms, like tithing part of your winter fuel allowance if you can afford to, or mentoring.
(13) Members are expected both to sell copies of the Nation’s paper, The Final Call, and submit tithes.
(14) On Wednesday airport authorities unveiled three proposals for a third runway, one of which would mean that St Mary's and a huge tithe barn next door would almost certainly be demolished along with hundreds of homes in Harmondsworth.
(15) Near Llantwit Major, the St Donat's Arts Centre ( stdonats.com ) – in an old tithe barn within St Donats Castle, formerly a home of William Randolph Hearst – puts on regular concerts, plays and exhibitions.
(16) Malcolm Muggeridge, in his book The Thirties, described the growth of the BBC in that decade (it had 4,233 employees by July 1939) thus: “The BBC came to pass silently, invisibly; like a coral reef, cells busily multiplying, until it was a vast structure … a society, with its king and lords and commoners, its laws and dossiers and revenue and easily suppressed insurrection …” Others think of it as like a religion: its foundations are faith and trust, and it will wither away when the congregations cease to believe in it (and pay their tithes to it).