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(US, taxation) The main form for US individual income tax filing.
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(US, taxation) A variant of the 1040 income tax return for non-resident tax payers.
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(US, taxation) A form reporting one's nonemployment income from a given source for a year.
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(US, taxation) An IRS form for tax-exempt organizations (such as charities).
n
(taxation) An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay.
n
(India) A tax, or impost, levied by a chief on a landowner.
adv
Measured by or in proportion to value.
n
A tax that is assessed as a proportion of the value of the property being taxed.
n
(countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
adj
(finance) That counters the avoidance of paying tax.
adj
Of or relating to tax legislation that restricts the conversion of certain intangibles into amortizable property.
adj
Countering attempts to defer the recognition of taxable income, as by transferring it abroad.
n
The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
n
(now historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land.
n
(historical) A tax or fee imposed on foreigners under the Ottoman Empire, especially one considered to be irregular or extortionate.
n
(taxation, law) Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
n
Taxes that were not paid when due.
n
(law, UK) The person providing such payment.
n
(US) A surety, used to obtain the release of a criminal defendant who has been required to give bail.
n
Alternative form of bail bond [(US) A surety, used to obtain the release of a criminal defendant who has been required to give bail.]
n
(law) The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.
n
Ellipsis of guaranteed basic income., a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a jurisdiction are guaranteed to have an income level at or above the set basic income cut-off level, whereby the government will top-off incomes falling below the line, to reach the limit. Those falling above the line would not receive payments.
n
(law) A negotiable loan instrument payable to its holder (bearer) by the issuer according to preset conditions. The owner must safeguard bearer bonds to prevent loss; interest is usually paid by coupon redemptions.
n
(law) A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
n
(economics) A sector of a nation's economy that is illegally undeclared and undocumented due to cash payments or tax avoidance
n
Income that is not reported to a government in order to evade taxes.
n
A large sum of money granted by national government to a regional government (or by a university to a students' union, etc.) with only general provisions as to the way it is to be spent.
n
A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
n
(law) A document given by the owner of real estate to convey the property upon being paid money; an agreement to convey title in the future that, so long as it remains executory, allows title to remain vested in the original owner.
n
(law) A kind of government bond that is a charge against the taxpayers generally, as distinguished from bonds for improvements, the cost of which is charged to the property specially benefited.
n
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
n
(finance) The registered owner of a financial bond.
adj
(finance) Holding bonds.
n
Someone who signs a bond that states that they have taken responsibility for someone else's obligations.
n
The paying of a bonus (especially in relation to taxes).
n
(US politics, informal) The excise tax levied on particularly expensive private health insurance plans, so-called Cadillac plans.
n
(taxation) A tax levied on the profit made from selling any "capital" (i.e. non-inventory) asset.
n
A grant that helps to cover initial costs.
n
(obsolete) A public rate or tax.
n
(Australia) The statutory authority responsible for providing social security payments.
n
(Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
n
A contract between a shipowner and a merchant, under which a ship is hired for the conveyance of goods etc.
n
(US) A tax on sales of agricultural goods in order to finance a generic commodity marketing program.
n
A capitation tax; an equal tax or tribute per person.
n
(economics) A tax collected by the state from members of some religious denominations to provide financial support of churches, such as the salaries of its clergy and to pay the operating cost of the church
n
Synonym of debt collection
n
(politics) In the Westminster system, the main bank account of the government, funded by general taxation and not earmarked for a specific purpose.
n
(economics) A tax levied on a corporation, especially on its profits; corporation tax
n
(UK) The taxation paid towards the local government.
n
A bond to secure one who has given bond for another.
n
A duty or surtax levied on an imported article to offset an excise or inland revenue tax placed upon articles of the same class manufactured domestically.
n
One who donates to a crowdfunding project.
n
(archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.
n
(US politics, derogatory) inheritance tax
n
Alternative form of debentureholder [The holder of a debenture.]
n
One from whom tax is deducted.
n
In Ireland, a tax on interest from savings.
n
(taxation) A tax imposed upon a person or property as distinct from a tax imposed upon a transaction.
n
The levying of tax by two or more jurisdictions on the same income.
n
(UK) A tax break provided as an inducement to sell valuable items (especially art) to public collections rather than on the open market.
n
(finance) A form of tax avoidance, based on the Double Irish arrangement, in which revenues from income of sales of the products shipped by the second Irish company are first booked by a shell company in the Netherlands, taking advantage of generous tax laws there.
adj
On which duty must be paid; taxable on import or export.
n
A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
n
A duty-free article, especially part of the allowance of such goods allowed to be imported.
n
(Canada, government) Extra money transferred from the federal government to a province, drawn from general tax revenue and intended to redistribute some wealth from relatively prosperous provinces to relatively poor provinces.
n
(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
n
A tax based on the value of the property of a deceased person, and charged on the personal representatives of the deceased.
n
A person who collects taxes.
n
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
n
Any of various taxes levied on the production or sale of certain goods, especially on luxuries, tobacco, alcohol etc.
n
A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
n
A direct or indirect compensation provided by government to private commercial firms to promote exports of domestic products.
n
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
n
(law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.
n
(taxation) Acronym of fixed, determinable, annual, or periodical, a variety of income in US taxation ("FDAP income")
n
(economics, taxation) A tax or user charge imposed by government that charges users of socially undesirable items and applies the money to payments for users of socially desirable items.
n
The management of money and other assets.
adj
Made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.
adj
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
n
(economics) The deflationary pressure on the economy that results from the government's net fiscal position (spending minus taxation) failing to cover the net savings desires of the private economy.
n
A personal income that does not vary over time, often predominantly from pensions or state benefits.
n
(real estate) A property being sold by the owner, without the aid of a broker.
n
Alternative form of flat tax [(government, taxation) A tax, usually income tax, whose percentage rate or currency value remains constant, regardless of the amount to which the tax is applied.]
n
(government, taxation) A tax, usually income tax, whose percentage rate or currency value remains constant, regardless of the amount to which the tax is applied.
n
(economics) The idea that the burdens of taxation "stick" to those taxed directly instead of spreading through the economy.
n
(colloquial, dated) A debt collector.
n
(Australia, finance, uncountable) A corporate tax system in which some or all of the tax paid by a company may be attributed, or imputed, to the shareholders by way of a tax credit to reduce the income tax payable on a distribution.
n
One who has money in the public funds.
n
(UK) A former system of state funding of general practitioners in which they were allocated a budget for services by the local hospital.
n
(US, finance) By extension, the Federal unemployment tax collected under that act.
n
A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
adj
(obsolete) Liable to the payment of taxes; subject to taxation.
n
(UK) A policy that enables charities to reclaim the income tax on donations from taxpayers.
n
A traditional economy where valuable goods are not traded or sold, but rather given away, sometimes with the expectation that they (or goods of equivalent or higher value) will later be given back.
n
(economics) The tax on money or property that one living person or corporate entity gives to another
n
A tax similar to goods and services tax, in certain countries and states.
n
A tax very similar to the value added tax, levied, for example, in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.
n
(economics, finance) An anti-avoidance tax provision introduced in a certain jurisdiction dealing with the practice of profits or royalties being diverted to other jurisdictions that have reduced or zero tax rates.
n
A government's revenue through taxes, royalties and government participation
n
The giving of national funds to subsidize a local or regional project.
n
A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade.
n
In United States tax law, income that is subject to taxation under the Internal Revenue Code (see Internal Revenue Code 61).
n
(economics) A tax on the total gross revenues of a company, regardless of their source
n
(Australia, finance) A statement of earnings from an employer or government department, used for taxation purposes.
n
Academic funds received from a government or other entity at regular intervals, as opposed to those requiring the submission of research grant proposals etc.
n
A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax.
adj
Subject to the payment of a heriot.
n
(taxation) A tax that is not visible to the consumer at the point of retail, having been levied on intermediate products, such as inputs to a finished product, or outputs from raw material production.
n
Payment for the temporary use of something.
n
the total income of all members of a household
n
(Africa, historical) A tax imposed by colonial authorities on dwellings or households.
n
(law) In Québec, a legal right over property used as security for an obligation, such as a mortgage.
n
(Britain) A tax levied for a specific expenditure.
n
(US, economics) Money provided by the government to school districts that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt Federal property, or have experienced increased expenditure due to the enrollment of federally connected children, including children living on Native American lands.
n
(UK) A financial benefit for people on a low income.
n
A tax levied on earned and unearned income, net of allowed deductions.
n
An official document that income tax payers are required to complete to state income amounts, deductions, contributions and related financial information for tax purposes.
n
(taxation) A tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of the market price of the goods or services purchased.
n
Revenue derived from stamps, excise, income tax, etc.
n
(finance, US) The domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States.
n
The United States government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws.
n
A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
n
(slang, taxation) A levy or tax on digital storage products (e.g. iPods), levied at a per unit capacity rate, used to compensate content providers for piracy of their goods.
n
(US, finance) One who makes itemized deductions on a tax return.
n
(Kenya) the government agency in Kenya that is responsible for the assessment, collection and accounting of all revenues that are due to the government.
n
A payment required by a landlord or agent before accessing rented property.
n
(economics) A theoretical curve that demonstrates the optimum rate of taxation.
n
(economics) A levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements
n
The tax, property or people so levied.
n
(informal) Something that is given as a loan.
n
(law, finance) A contract of hire. A bailment: goods delivered or property or land made available to the bailee in exchange for money or reward paid to the bailor. May be one of three main types: locatio rei, 'the hire of a thing'; locatio operarum, 'a worker for a wage'; locatio operis faciendi, a contract for 'services providing a result'
n
Any tax on the sale of items not considered to be essential to a reasonable standard of living, either to increase revenue, or to discourage the use of certain articles.
n
A tax rate on property, expressed in mills of the property's value.
n
property tax, especially where the tax rate for property is determined in mills.
n
The acquisition of money.
n
(slang) An individual who lends money in exchange for interest.
n
Obsolete form of money. [A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.]
n
Alternative spelling of mortgager [One who uses property they own as security for a loan; the borrower in a mortgage agreement.]
n
(UK) A system of taxes paid by workers and employers, used primarily to fund state benefits.
n
a progressive income tax system in which people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the government.
n
(India, historical) A tariff, rate, or current price, especially one established by authority.
n
a means of limiting imports without charging a tariff in the form of taxes or duties; an import restriction.
n
(US, accounting) Income that is generated in the United States by a corporation but that is not taxed by the destination US state (the state in which a buyer, for example, is based), due to the state not having the jurisdiction to tax the corporation.
n
(derogatory) A tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services, payable by the customer and transmitted by the seller to the taxing authority; a sales tax.
n
(historical) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.
n
(South Africa, historical) A tax on produce, stock, and capitation.
n
The grantor of a financial option.
n
(accounting) The remaining interest in all assets after all liabilities are paid.
n
(UK) A form used to declare benefits in kind to HMRC (the UK tax authority).
n
(UK, Ireland, taxation) The end-of-year tax certificate given to each employee by their employer.
adj
(UK, of a benefit) For which one is automatically eligible if receiving certain other benefits.
n
(Britain) The national system whereby income tax and national insurance is deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee.
n
(law) A contractor's bond, guaranteeing that the contractor will perform the contract and providing that, in the event of default, the surety may complete the contract or pay damages up to the bond limit.
n
(India, obsolete, by extension) A tax or custom duty.
n
(economics) Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Greece and Spain, grouped on the basis of their large debts during the European sovereign debt crisis.
n
(finance) Any financial or other risk that stems from the possibility of a nation changing its policies.
n
A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
n
(obsolete) A poll tax, one charged for each person.
n
(UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
n
(government, taxation) a tax whose percentage increases as a person's wealth increases.
n
A tax, usually ad valorem, charged on the basis of the fair market value of property. The scope of taxable property varies by jurisdiction and it may include personal property in addition to real estate.
n
A field of economics concerned with paying for collective or governmental activities, and with the administration and design of those activities.
n
A form of tax evasion in which an employer that withholds payroll taxes from employees intentionally fails to remit those withholdings to the taxing authority, often then filing for bankruptcy to repeat the fraud under a new name.
n
(economics) The income earned, in excess of post-investment opportunity cost, by a sunk cost investment.
n
Alternative spelling of quasi-rent [(economics) The income earned, in excess of post-investment opportunity cost, by a sunk cost investment.]
n
Alternative form of quitrent [A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.]
n
(chiefly historical, informal) An excessive rent.
n
Alternative form of rack rent [(law, formal) The full rental value of a property, including both land and improvements, if it were subject to an immediate open market rent review.]
n
(Canada, law) The principle, widely recognized in Canadian law and in collective agreements, that all employees of a unionized workplace must pay dues to the labor union, whether they choose to be members of the union or not.
n
The amount on which a tax rate is assessed.
n
Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
n
(Britain) An official estimate of the value of a property used as a basis of local taxation
n
A government monopoly, such as on tobaccoo, typically used to raise revenue (via taxes).
v
(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
n
(finance) Money set aside to pay rent.
n
Alternative form of rent-seeking. [(economics) The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.]
n
A person who engages in rent-seeking behavior.
n
(historical) An assessment of taxes.
n
In the inland revenue, an application to obtain a permit for removing excisable articles.
n
(taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
n
(UK) The Inland Revenue, formed in 1849 and dissolved in 2005 to form part of HMRC.
n
A statute imposing a tax to defray the expenses of government..
n
(US, law) a bill that levies taxes
n
(Australia) The alleged practice of using traffic fines as a means of gathering taxes, rather than for road safety.
n
(US) Federal grants distributing a portion of federal tax revenues to state and municipal governments.
n
A tax on financial transactions.
n
(UK) A tax based on house prices, proposed as an alternative to the poll tax in the 1990s.
n
Abbreviation of receiver. [(now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.]
n
(UK, taxation) The main tax return form for individuals.
n
(UK, taxation) A tax return form for employees and company directors.
n
(UK, taxation) A tax return form for UK property income.
n
(UK, taxation) A tax return form for foreign income or gains.
n
(UK, taxation) A tax return form for capital gains.
n
(UK, taxation) A tax return form for non-residents and dual residents.
n
A local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer. The tax is not recognized as the seller's earnings; the seller only collects the tax and transmits the same to local or state authorities.
n
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
n
(UK, informal) The assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.
n
(obsolete) A tax; an assessment.
n
(US) A state tax on the extraction of nonrenewable natural resources (such as minerals, petroleum, or natural gas) that will be used in another state.
n
Those benefits paid under such a system.
n
(US, politics) Funds contributed to political parties for activities intended to influence state or local elections.
n
Synonym of government bond
n
(economics) The amount of money outstanding that was borrowed by a government in order to finance expenditure not covered by taxation
n
(US, law, historical) An estate tax imposed by a state that was credited against the federal estate tax, raising revenue for a state without increasing the overall tax burden.
n
(European Union) Any grant, subsidy, or other preferential treatment or advantage to a company by a national government, and which is therefore potentially in violation of competition law.
n
Mandatory rendering of money to a government that is not explicitly identified as a tax.
n
(US, finance, law) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.
n
(dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
n
(economics, taxation) A government levy on goods considered to be socially undesirable goods or nonessential luxuries, most commonly alcohol and tobacco.
n
(law) In a criminal case, the surety (or bail) bond assures the appearance of the defendant or the repayment of bail forfeited upon the defendant's failure to appear in court.
n
(law) An additional or extra tax.
n
The imposition of a surtax.
n
(Canada) A tax reporting form used by estates and trusts.
n
Obsolete spelling of tallage (tax). [An impost.]
n
(Britain) A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.
n
a barrier to trade between countries in the form of high taxes or duties which may be imposed by a government.
n
(obsolete) A tax or charge.
n
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
n
(US, finance) An incentive issued by a government which will reduce or eliminate taxes on real estate in a specific area.
n
(finance) Those accounting activities related to tax.
n
the value set on taxable property
n
A government organization responsible for collecting taxes.
n
The legal exploitation of tax rules to minimize tax payments.
n
(law, taxation) Synonym of avoision
n
(US, derogatory) The amount or rate of taxes.
n
A range over which a piecewise linear, generally progressive, tax is linear.
n
A deduction in tax that is given in order to encourage a certain economic activity or a social objective
n
(US) A volunteer organization where income tax returns are prepared for qualifying low income tax payers.
n
(taxation) A reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government.
n
(US, colloquial) The day on which individual income tax returns are due to be submitted to the federal government, or within an individual state.
n
[…]indication that taxpayer accepted public employment as a tax dodge, and where taxpayer earned approximately 98% of his income from his Oregon based business activities, taxpayer was a "public employee" and was therefore entitled to deduct[…]
n
(informal) Someone who commits tax avoidance or tax evasion.
n
(taxation) The total amount a taxpayer must pay to the government or other entity.
n
(taxation, criminology) The illegal avoidance of paying tax, especially by making a false declaration of income etc.
n
A person who leaves a country to avoid paying tax.
n
(finance) The collection of taxes by a private person, authorized by the state in exchange for a cash payment.
n
The first day of the year on which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes.
n
A jurisdiction that levies low tax rates on certain economic activities, especially to attract wealthy individuals and (foreign) businesses.
n
(taxation, informal) A sudden increase in taxes.
n
An inducement offered in the form of an abatement of taxes.
n
(law) The area of law pertaining to the statutory and regulatory rules applicable to taxation.
n
(accounting, real estate, US) An parcel of real property on which property taxes are levied.
n
A government-established place (building, office, shop, or counter) offering advice on tax affairs.
n
(finance) The date on which a transaction takes place for the purpose of calculating value added tax.
n
A rate, usually a percentage rate, at which something is taxed.
n
The reduction of one or more tax rates.
n
A reduction in the amount of tax that an individual or company has to pay.
n
Refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.
n
In the United States, a person who resists or refuses to pay a tax for which the government has determined that person is liable, based on a disagreement with the policies of the government.
n
(finance) A declaration of income etc. for tax purposes: a report of income, deductions, contributions, and related financial information filed by a taxpayer with a national or local tax authority, used by the authority to determine the amount of taxation, usually consisting of forms completed by the taxpayer.
n
The total revenue that a state, municipality etc. gets from all taxes.
n
(economics, finance) A legal structure that reduces tax liability for a person or that person's assets.
n
The reduction in income taxes that results from taking an allowable deduction from taxable income.
n
(economics) a change in taxation that eliminates or reduces some taxes and establishes or increases others, thereby keeping the overall revenue the same
n
The assessed value of an asset from which the tax owing is computed.
n
(economics) difference between the price that includes all taxes and the untaxed price of a good, particularly the difference between the employer's labour cost and the employee's take-home pay
n
The base upon which an income tax system imposes tax.
n
The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.
n
One who is taxed; a taxpayer.
n
The collecting of taxes or revenues.
n
(informal, derogatory) A government supporting excessive taxes or spending.
adj
Alternative form of taxaphobic [(informal) Fearing or opposing taxes.]
n
A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax as opposed to a nontaxpayer who is neither the subject nor the object of revenue laws.
n
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
n
(finance) A means of spreading a single year's chargeable event gain (CEG) over a number of years, for the purpose of calculating how much income tax is due.
n
(law) A transaction fee (often relatively small in relation to the value of property) imposed on the transfer of title to property.
n
Loosely, a substantial inheritance of money.
adj
(finance) Being the owner of a beneficial interest ("unit") in a financial entity such as an investment trust.
n
(US) A charge imposed on the use or possession of personal property
n
(economics) A tax on public service businesses, including ones that engage in transportation, communications, and the supply of energy, natural gas, and water.
n
(taxation) A tax levied on the added value that results from the exchange of goods and services
n
Alternative form of value added tax [(taxation) A tax levied on the added value that results from the exchange of goods and services]
n
(US, taxation) A form to declare that someone is not a U.S. tax payer or to request reduced tax withholding.
n
(US, taxation) A form to declare that someone is a U.S. tax payer.
n
Schemes for raising money for the carrying on of government.
n
The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.
n
A withholding; a tax withheld from employees' salary and paid to the government. The withheld amount is considered a credit in final taxation.
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