tax return

English

Noun

tax return (plural tax returns)

1. (finance) A declaration of income etc. for tax purposes: a report of income, deductions, contributions, and related financial information filed by a taxpayer with a national or local tax authority, used by the authority to determine the amount of taxation, usually consisting of forms completed by the taxpayer

   Synonym: tax declaration

   • 1980, “Stealing People's Mail”, performed by Dead Kennedys:

     Stealing people's mail / On a Friday night / Drivin' in the mountains / Winding 'round and 'round / Rummage through your mailboxes / Take your mail back to town / And we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns / Checks to politicians from real estate firms / Money, bills, and canceled checks / Pretty funny pictures of your kids / Gonna steal your mail

Translations

declaration of income to the tax authority

• Catalan: declaració de la renda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納稅申報單／纳税申报单 (nàshuì shēnbàodān), 退稅申請／退税申请 (tuìshuì shēnqǐng), 納稅申報表／纳税申报表 (nàshuì shēnbàobiǎo)

• Czech: daňové přiznání (cs) n
• Dutch: belastingaangifte (nl) f
• Finnish: veroilmoitus (fi)
• French: déclaration d’impôt f, déclaration d’impôts f, déclaration de revenus (fr), déclaration fiscale f
• German: Steuererklärung (de) f
• Greek: φορολογική δήλωση (el) f (forologikí dílosi)
• Hungarian: adóbevallás (hu)
• Icelandic: framtal (is) n
• Indonesian: surat pemberitahuan, SPT (abbreviation)
• Japanese: 税金申告 (ぜいきんしんこく, zeikin-shinkoku)
• Malay: penyata cukai
• Maori: puka tāke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvangivelse (no) m

• Polish: deklaracja podatkowa (pl) f, zeznanie podatkowe m
• Portuguese: declaração de imposto f, declaração de impostos f
• Russian: нало́говая деклара́ция f (nalógovaja deklarácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: poreska prijava f
• Spanish: declaración de impuestos f, declaración de la renta f
• Swedish: inkomstdeklaration c, deklaration (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulat sa buwis
• Turkish: vergi beyannamesi (tr)

See also

• income tax return

References

• “tax return”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.