taxation

English

Etymology

From Middle English taxacioun, from Anglo-Norman taxacion, from Latin taxātio (“rating, appraisal”). By surface analysis, tax +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăk-sā'shən, IPA^(key): /tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.
   • 1904, The American Catholic Quarterly Review (volume 29, page 314)

     Less than one-tenth of the taxation is spent on public improvements of any kind […]

Derived terms

• antitaxation
• detaxation
• double taxation
• ecotaxation
• e-taxation
• hypertaxation
• maltaxation
• nontaxation
• overtaxation
• pretaxation
• retaxation
• stealth taxation
• taxational

Translations

act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հարկում (hy) (harkum)
• Belarusian: падаткаабклада́нне n (padatkaabkladánnje)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: обла́гане с да́нъци n (oblágane s dánǎci)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徵稅 / 征税 (zh) (zhēngshuì), 稅收 / 税收 (zh) (shuìshōu)

• Czech: zdanění (cs) n
• Danish: beskatning c
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: maksustamine
• Finnish: verotus (fi)
• French: taxation (fr) f, imposition (fr) f
• Georgian: დაბეგვრა (dabegvra)
• German: Besteuerung (de) f
• Greek: φορολογία (el) f (forología)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: adózás (hu), adóztatás (hu), megadóztatás (hu)
• Indonesian: perpajakan (id)
• Italian: tassazione (it) f
• Japanese: 課税 (ja) (かぜい, kazei)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 과세(課稅) (ko) (gwase)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: apmokestinimas m
• Macedonian: оданочување n (odanočuvanje)
• Malay: percukaian (ms)
• Middle English: taxacioun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beskatning m or f

• Occitan: taxacion f
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: opodatkowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: taxação (pt) f
• Romanian: taxație (ro) f
• Russian: налогообложе́ние (ru) n (nalogoobložénije), обложе́ние нало́гом n (obložénije nalógom), взима́ние нало́га n (vzimánije nalóga)
• Slovak: zdanenie n
• Slovene: obdavčevanje n
• Spanish: tasación (es) f
• Swedish: beskattning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: vergilendirme (tr)
• Ukrainian: оподаткува́ння n (opodatkuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: thuế khoá (vi)

particular system of taxing people or companies

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稅制 / 税制 (zh) (shuìzhì)

• Finnish: verotus (fi), vero (fi)
• Georgian: დაბეგვრა (dabegvra)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (gilstramēleins)
• Greek: φορολογία (el) f (forología)
• Hungarian: adórendszer (hu)
• Indonesian: perpajakan (id)
• Japanese: 税制 (ja) (ぜいせい, zeisei)
• Korean: 세제(稅制) (ko) (seje)
• Malay: percukaian (ms)
• Russian: налогообложе́ние (ru) n (nalogoobložénije), систе́ма налогообложе́ния f (sistéma nalogoobložénija)
• Spanish: régimen fiscal

revenue gained from taxes — see tax revenue

See also

• render unto Caesar

Further reading

• taxation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French taxacion, borrowed from Latin taxātiōnem. By surface analysis, taxer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.sa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

taxation f (plural taxations)

1. taxation

   Synonym: imposition

Descendants

• → Romanian: taxație

Further reading

• “taxation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

taxation

1. alternative form of taxacioun