Cedula vs Tax - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cedula and tax

is that cedula is (philippines) a community tax certificate, often used as a form of identification in the philippines while tax is money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

As a verb tax is

to impose and collect a tax from (a person).

cedula

English

Noun

(en noun)

(Philippines) A community tax certificate, often used as a form of identification in the Philippines.

*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=T.H. Pardo de Tavera, title=The Legacy of Ignorantism, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="A certain man," it is said in the Novena of San Vicente (p. 15), "gave his soul to the devil with a certificate (cedula ) signed by his own hand, and hearing the Saint preach, implored him to ask that the demon return it. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Austin Craig, title=Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=His short residence in Barcelona was possibly for the purpose of correcting the irregularity in his passport, for in that town it would be easier to obtain a cedula , and with this his way in the national University would be made smoother. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Jose Rizal, title=The Social Cancer, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The other, the one who was left to me, was not a coward like his father, so our persecutor was still fearful that he would wreak vengeance on him, and, under the pretext of his not having his cedula , [124] which he had not carried with him just at that time, had him arrested by the Civil Guard, mistreated him, enraged and harassed him with insults until he was driven to suicide! }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Francis Augustus MacNutt, title=Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The justified protests of Columbus found a hearing, and the man who had inflicted a supreme indignity upon him was recalled, Don Nicholas de Ovando being appointed by a royal cedula of September 3, 1501, to succeed him. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1906, author=John Foreman, title=The Philippine Islands, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=--Property tax (7/8 per cent. of assessed value), industrial, cedula (poll tax of 1 peso for each male over 18 years), stamps, court fees, fines, sales of supplies to municipalities, and forestry collection. }} ----

tax

English

(wikipedia tax)

Noun

Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax . The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}

A burdensome demand.

a heavy tax on time or health

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

(obsolete) charge; censure

(Clarendon)

(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

(Johnson)

Synonyms

* (money paid to government) impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levy

Antonyms

* (money paid to government) subsidy

Hyponyms

(types of taxes) * church tax * corporation tax * duty * estate tax * excise * excise tax * gift tax * goods and services tax * gross receipts tax * head tax * income tax * inheritance tax * land tax * poll tax * property tax * personal property tax * real property tax * sales tax * sin tax * sumptuary tax * transfer tax * use tax * utilities tax * value added tax

Coordinate terms

(other government revenues) * fine * license fee * penalty * seignorage * user charge

Derived terms

* tax collector * tax haven * tax hike * taxman * tax free * tax rise * taxes due * taxpayer

Verb

(es)

To impose and collect a tax from (a person).

Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.

To impose and collect a tax on (something).

Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.

To make excessive demands on.

* Do not tax my patience.

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Derived terms

* taxable * taxation