0 to demand too much tax from someone or to put too much tax on goods:
I've been overtaxed this month.
Food should not be overtaxed.
1 to cause to feel tired or confused as a result of doing too much or doing something too difficult:
2 to demand too much tax from someone or to put too much tax on goods:
3 to make people, a system, a machine, etc. do more than they can do:
Filling so many jobs at once would overtax the department.
If we continue overtaxing and polluting the environment, our personal well-being will eventually suffer too.
The state marketing board overtaxed cocoa production over several decades to the point of ruin (or smuggling to neighbouring countries), reinforced by an overvalued currency.
The reader whose brain gets overtaxed has ample opportunity to savour the seductive - and informative - illustrations.
To some uncertain extent, negligent net beneficiaries will be overcompensated, while net contributors, who have gained by foresight and hard work rather than by brute good luck, are overtaxed.
His friend fears the difficult work may overtax his weak brain.
The dangers of single authorship include the fact that the scale of what is known is so vast that it might overtax one single individual.
In fact, by avoiding tasks likely to overtax their skills, children would miss out on important opportunities to learn new things.
At the moment, labour is overtaxed in relation to its much more mobile counterpart, capital.
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