noun
a personal tax levied on annual income (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms: ↑tax, ↑taxation, ↑revenue enhancement
• Hyponyms:
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noun, pl ⋯ taxes
: a tax paid on the money that a person or business receives as income
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Federal income tax will be deducted from your pay.
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The new law will lower income taxes for most taxpayers.
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the amount of money that you pay to the government according to how much you earn
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The standard rate of income tax was cut to 23p in the pound.
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federal income tax
Useful english dictionary. 2012.