0 (an amount of) money paid to the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought: --
What do you earn before/after tax (= before/after you have paid tax on the money you earn)?
Tax cuts (= reductions in taxes) are always popular.
They're increasing the tax on cigarettes.
1 to make someone pay a tax: --
Husbands and wives may be taxed jointly/separately.
2 to need someone to make a lot of effort, either physical or mental: --
3 (an amount of) money paid to the government, usually a percentage of personal income or of the cost of goods or services bought: --
4 to be difficult for someone or use too much of something: --
5 to require a person or organization to pay a tax: --
He maintained that corporations were not being taxed enough.
Due to transaction costs, tax distortions, bureaucratic inefficiencies, or corruption, this share is less than one.
Intuitively, higher taxes induce greater corruption, which in turn necessitates greater auditing.
Any non-zero imposition of tax makes the high-efficiency boiler plus the baghouse the least-cost option.
However, the increased cost on capital plus the incurred tax burden raise the unit cost of producing the rural good.
Once the pollution control board imposes a tax, the plants have to choose between options.
We have shown how pollution taxes on both goods can affect factor returns, goods' prices, urban unemployment, and social welfare for the economy.
This was the point of the capital gains tax.
This should rather have strengthened their original support for the tax, instead of turning them against it.
