taxation

English

Etymology

From Latin taxātĭo (“rating, appraisal”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăks-ā'shən, IPA: /tæksˈeɪ.ʃən/, X-SAMPA: /t{ks"eI.S@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

taxation (countable and uncountable; plural taxations)

1. The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed
   • 2012 May 29, John elkington, “Common threads in the Breakthrough Booklist”, the Guardian:

     Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson.

2. A particular system of taxing people or companies
3. The revenue gained from taxes

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Translations

act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徵稅 (cmn), 征税 (cmn) (zhēngshuì)

• Finnish: verotus (fi)
• French: taxation (fr) f
• German: Besteuerung (de) f
• Greek: φορολογία (el) (forología) f

• Japanese: 課税 (ja) (かぜい, kazei)
• Polish: opodatkowanie (pl) n
• Russian: налогообложение (ru) (nalogoobložénije) n, обложение налогом (ru) (obložénije nalógom) n, взимание налога (ru) (vzimánije nalóga) n
• Spanish: tasación (es) f
• Swedish: beskattning (sv) c

particular system of taxing people or companies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稅制 (cmn), 税制 (cmn) (shuìzhì)

• Finnish: verotus (fi), vero (fi)
• Greek: φορολογία (el) (forología) f

• Japanese: 税制 (ja) (ぜいせい, zeisei)
• Russian: налогообложение (ru) (nalogoobložénije) n, система налогообложения (ru) (sistéma nalogoobložénija) f
• Spanish: régimen fiscal (es)

revenue gained from taxes — see tax revenue

External links

• Taxation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia