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Donate vs Tax - What's the difference?

donate | tax |

As verbs the difference between donate and tax

is that donate is to make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another while tax is to impose and collect a tax from (a person).

As a noun tax is

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

donate

English

Verb

(donat)
  • To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
  • She donates 100 dollars to Red Crescent every year.
    He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.

    Anagrams

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    tax

    English

    (wikipedia tax)

    Noun

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