mistax

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ tax

Verb

mistax (third-person singular simple present mistaxes, present participle mistaxing, simple past and past participle mistaxed)

1. To tax inappropriately.
   • 2004, Henry Aaron, Joel Slemrod, The Crisis in Tax Administration, page 36:

     If a rare transaction is mistaxed, taxpayers have an incentive to find it and exploit it.

   • 2008, Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln: A History:

     That citizens would not be unrepresented, mistaxed, overlorded, or involuntarily impressed into military service put the country in a New World indeed.

   • 2020, George K. Yin, Karen C. Burke, Partnership Taxation, page 328:

     More generally, the policy concern that the use of carried interests enables labor income to be mistaxed as preferential capital gain would not seem to depend upon how long a particular investment is held.