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Webster 1913 Edition
Taxation
1.
The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
2.
(Law)
The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
3.
Tax; sum imposed.
[R.]
Daniel.
4.
Charge; accusation.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Taxation
TAXA'TION
,Noun.
1.
Tax; sum imposed. [Little used.] He daily such taxations did exact--
2.
Charge; accusation. [Little us3.
The act of taxing or assessing a bill of cost.Definition 2024
taxation
taxation
English
Noun
taxation (countable and uncountable, plural taxations)
- The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
- 2012 May 29, John Elkington, “Common threads in the Breakthrough Booklist”, in the Guardian:
- Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson.
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- A particular system of taxing people or companies
- The revenue gained from taxes
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Derived terms
Translations
act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed
particular system of taxing people or companies
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revenue gained from taxes — see tax revenue