Tax vs Tariff - What's the difference?
tax | tariff |
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)
A burdensome demand.
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
(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
To impose and collect a tax on (something).
To make excessive demands on.
* Do not tax my patience.
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a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves
a schedule of rates, fees or prices
(British) a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime
In transitive terms the difference between tax and tariff
is that tax is to make excessive demands on while tariff is to levy a duty on (something.tax
English
(wikipedia tax)Noun
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- a heavy tax on time or health
- (Clarendon)
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (money paid to government) impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levyAntonyms
* (money paid to government) subsidyHyponyms
(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 taxCoordinate terms
(other government revenues) * fine * license fee * penalty * seignorage * user chargeDerived terms
* tax collector * tax haven * tax hike * taxman * tax free * tax rise * taxes due * taxpayerVerb
(es)- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.