Thesaurus results for TAXES

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noun

plural of tax

as in levies

a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use the state sales tax boosted the final cost of my new computer

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tax

as in stretches

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience

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Recent Examples of taxes

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What if my employer taxes directly from my paycheck? —

Irene Wright, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026 Cleaning reduces visual clutter that taxes your brain, lowers stress by restoring a feeling of control and triggers reward responses that fuel motivation. —

Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026 Khosla’s counter-vision—federal reform that taxes capital more aggressively while relieving the burden on working Americans—is designed to be a policy that billionaires can live with and workers can vote for. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026 Treasury has also argued that temporary Russian sanctions relief won’t feed Russian government budgets because the country taxes oil at extraction, not sale. —

Ben Smith, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026 Hayes stressed in his statement to the Washington Examiner that taxes from skill games could raise significant revenue for the commonwealth and small business owners. —

Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2026 While at the helm of Brazil’s finance ministry, Haddad pushed through huge changes in how the country taxes goods and services, a proposal that had been in the works for decades, as well as a popular income tax reform. —

ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026 Under the ideal tax system — one that taxes income once and only once, with no loopholes, no double taxation and no provisions favoring one activity over another — the employer insurance exclusion would not exist. —

Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026 Connecticut taxes the wealth of those with relatively few assets, while exempting the wealth of the richest 1% and one-tenth of 1%. —

Joseph Gerics, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2026

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If reimposed, the levies could further compound inflationary pressures in the world’s largest economy at a time when the war in Iran is pushing up prices, especially in the energy sector.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Since city and county revenue is derived almost exclusively from local property taxes, the tax base will not support levies for an amount sufficient to finance these new expenditures.

— Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026