tax
part of speech
noun (a tax, taxes); verb (tax, taxes, taxed, taxing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Money that people and businesses must pay to the government to pay for things like schools, roads, hospitals and police. tree →
2) As a verb, to make people pay tax on something. tree →
3) To tax something can also mean to make it work hard or tire it: "a taxing job". tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, a sales tax (USA, Canada) or VAT or GST (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) is added to many prices. In maths, tax problems ask you to find a percentage of a price and add it on. In history lessons, unfair taxes caused protests, such as the Boston Tea Party. Phrases: pay tax, sales tax, income tax, tax on, tax-free, taxing.
examples
- Taxes help pay for schools and roads. tree →
- The price was 10 dollars plus tax. tree →
- In Australia, GST is added to most things you buy. tree →
- The government taxes petrol. tree →
- Grown-ups pay income tax on the money they earn. tree →
- Climbing that steep hill was very taxing. tree →
- The colonists were angry about the tax on tea. tree →
- “Have you been for the tax?” said the giant. tree →
note
Countable: a tax, taxes. In maths, if tax is 10% of 50 dollars, the tax is 5 dollars and the total is 55 dollars. "Taxing" as an adjective means tiring or difficult. Do not confuse "tax" with "taxi". "Tax-free" means no tax is added.
In the corpora
- Benefits are paid for by everyone's taxes as a safety net, and many families who work get some help too.
- Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits.
- There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.
- Most people accept tax as the price of public services; they argue about how much and what it is spent on.
- What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tax» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.