0 used to describe the act of something being taken away from someone by a government, etc.: --
It has a confiscatory effect; on debts of all kinds.
The rates have been shown to be confiscatory as more and more people outside have begun to understand the full impact of the tax.
I believe that this in itself is part of what is becoming penal taxation and, on the small man, almost confiscatory in its consequences.
There has been wild talk in this debate of confiscatory legislation.
Our difficulty with this amendment is that, by insisting on the private sector, one has confiscatory legislation.
We have now reached in this country a state of taxation which is absolutely confiscatory.
Presumably because they, like us, believe that confiscatory taxes are counter-produc-tive and easily evaded.
Due to the confiscatory nature of death duties in earlier times, the state acquired all the benefits of the land, but none of the liabilities.
