tax take
noun[C,usually singular]
TAX,GOVERNMENT,ECONOMICSinformalukusthetotalamountofmoneythat agovernmentcollectsintax:
With aslowingeconomythere's alowertaxtake.
Examplesoftax take
tax take
His government found itself largely unable to collect income tax, as warlords controlling the ports and major cities pocketed thetaxtakethemselves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The emin could also take the place of a tax-farmer, collecting a defined package of taxes, and might report back to central authority identifying new ways to increasetaxtake.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Millions of tourists contribute to thetaxtakeby paying the general excise tax and hotel room tax; thus not all taxes come directly from residents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Obviously taxes included in official gross product measures do not equal the net totaltaxtake, because some taxes are unrelated to production and therefore excluded.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In my own country, for example, the lower tax rate has meant a multiplication of thetaxtake.
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Huge pay rises for the rich are one reason why thetaxtakehas been greater.
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As many of us now know only too clearly, thetaxtakefrom the national average income group has increased enormously over recent years.
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Even if those people do not pay a penny in national insurance, thetaxtakewill go up, not down.
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In contrast, when his party was in government higher direct taxes produced a lowertaxtake.
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