taxation
The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
Other meanings
A particular system of taxing people or companies
The revenue gained from taxes.
Related words
- protaxation
- pretaxation
- nontaxation
- antitaxation
- ecotaxation
- detaxation
- e-taxation
- hypertaxation
- maltaxation
- overtaxation
- taxational
- stealth taxation
Word history
From Latin "taxātio" (rating, appraisal).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “taxation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.