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# tax

«tax» in Mova's school dictionary: **Money that people and businesses must pay to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tax, taxes); verb (tax, taxes, taxed, taxing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Money that people and businesses must pay to the government to pay for things like schools, roads, hospitals and police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#m1)

2) As a verb, to make people pay tax on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#m2)

3) To tax something can also mean to make it work hard or tire it: "a taxing job". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, a sales tax (USA, Canada) or VAT or GST (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) is added to many prices. In maths, tax problems ask you to find a percentage of a price and add it on. In history lessons, unfair taxes caused protests, such as the Boston Tea Party. Phrases: pay tax, sales tax, income tax, tax on, tax-free, taxing.

### examples

- Taxes help pay for schools and roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x1)
- The price was 10 dollars plus tax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x2)
- In Australia, GST is added to most things you buy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x3)
- The government taxes petrol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x4)
- Grown-ups pay income tax on the money they earn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x5)
- Climbing that steep hill was very taxing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x6)
- The colonists were angry about the tax on tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x7)
- “Have you been for the tax?” said the giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#x8)

### note

Countable: a tax, taxes. In maths, if tax is 10% of 50 dollars, the tax is 5 dollars and the total is 55 dollars. "Taxing" as an adjective means tiring or difficult. Do not confuse "tax" with "taxi". "Tax-free" means no tax is added.

### In the corpora

- [Benefits are paid for by everyone's taxes as a safety net, and many families who work get some help too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/11/)
- [Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/15/)
- [There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/1/)
- [Most people accept tax as the price of public services; they argue about how much and what it is spent on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/16/)
- [What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tax» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.