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taxation
/ tækˈseɪʃən /
noun
- the act or principle of levying taxes or the condition of being taxed
- an amount assessed as tax
- a tax rate
- revenue from taxes
taxation
- A government's practice of collecting money from citizens and businesses within its domain to support its operations.
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Derived Forms
- taxˈational, adjective
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Other Words From
- tax·ation·al adjective
- anti·tax·ation adjective
- nontax·ation noun
- protax·ation adjective
- retax·ation noun
- self-tax·ation noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
In America, low turnout is the new black eye for a country founded on “no taxation without representation.”
Taxes are an obvious benchmark, since right now, employed teenagers are literally subjected to taxation without representation.
The marginal rate of taxation applies much more heavily on the secondary wage.
They support progressive taxation, they support many or even most categories of government spending, and so on.
“Taxation Without Representation” is on many license plates.
Regular taxation, monopolies, mortgages, and loans barely sufficed to provide for the budget.
And it cannot do this unless it continues to use the terrific engine of taxation already fashioned in the war.
Clearly, it was no mere question of taxation but the larger question of legislative independence that now confronted Americans.
The court said the game would not work, that for the purposes of taxation the concern must be regarded as an individual.
This provision also had the effect of preventing the imposition of taxation upon the community by means of railway rates.
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