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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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 In other words, if Washington State or California or Massachusetts or New York, if any of those places taxes its wealthiest residents, those people who have means will simply move away. —

Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 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 Medical inflation continues to outpace overall inflation, and New York’s Health Care Reform Act taxes employers and unions who do the right thing and provide health benefits — adding roughly 4% a year to their cost. —

Stuart Appelbaum, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026

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While bonds are used to pay for projects, governments typically use tax levies to pay for operating expenses like wages, health care or utilities.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
This generally includes actions like wage garnishment and bank levies.

— Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026