0 past simple and past participle of tax
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:
There was great opposition to plans to tax books.
In addition, the incidence of such taxes are particularly difficult to determine since they generally influence the relative prices of the commodities taxed.
Colonial governments already taxed their subject populations heavily, but typically did so through indirect taxation as well as various forms of head tax.
Exports have been taxed and import substitute industries are protected.
Instead, easily observable activities such as market exchange and agricultural and manufacturing production were taxed.
