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# tax

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

«tax» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Money that people and businesses must pay to the government to pay for things like schools, roads, hospitals and police. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#m1)
2. As a verb, to make people pay tax on something. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/#m3)

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

This was the half-shekel tax that Moses laid on Israel for the Tabernacle.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this tax as a way for every person, rich or poor, to take an equal share in God's house.

### Examples

- And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. (Writings 2CH.24.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tax/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tax» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tax» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tax.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tax» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tax/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tax» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tax.html) on Mova free.