0 past simple and past participle of overtax
1 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.
2 to cause to feel tired or confused as a result of doing too much or doing something too difficult:
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.
This illustrates the first contention that industry has been overtaxed in these years.
This is because enterprising people at every level undoubtedly feel overtaxed.
Why has he increased the taxation on a commodity which is already overtaxed?
It has been overtaxed, unrewarded and, in some cases—though not all—overworked.
In the same way, in such an overtaxed economy one can make progress by using taxation as the incentive.
