voluntary taxation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvoluntaryandtaxation
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voluntary
adjective
uk/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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taxation
noun[U]
uk/tækˈseɪ.ʃən/us/tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
the system of ...
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This fund is very much in the nature ofvoluntarytaxationof a particular kind.
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A merit of my proposal is that it is a form ofvoluntarytaxation.
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It is a form ofvoluntarytaxationwhich it is presumed people will be pleased to pay.
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A lot of it is stillvoluntarytaxation.
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We believe that without that commitment to additionality, the national lottery becomes a sort ofvoluntarytaxationscheme—buy a ticket and cut the budget.
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Many of us believe that if we are to have a free society there cannot be a system ofvoluntarytaxation.
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One might just as well say that one prefers avoluntarytaxationsystem.
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More and more of those forms of tax will essentially bevoluntarytaxation.
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One of the oddest arguments against a national lottery is that it would amount to a system ofvoluntarytaxation.
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After all, what is wrong withvoluntarytaxation?
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Is he referring to hervoluntarytaxationpayments?
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It is often alleged against a national lottery that it is a form ofvoluntarytaxation, but that has always struck me as a very odd objection.
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He also thought that poor-relief officials should be tenured and business-like; andvoluntarytaxationwas the correct way to support poor relief.
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State lotteries are an example of avoluntarytaxationsystem.
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