tax
noun/tæks/- 1.
thuế
Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.
- The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic[…]
- 2.
khoản đóng góp
A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
ℹ Từ này được dùng trong ngữ cảnh không chính thức để chỉ việc phải chia sẻ một phần tài sản hoặc quyền lợi cho người khác, khác với nghĩa thuế vụ của chính phủ.
- Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious.
- Scrambled egg with cheese [...] careful with the cheese here because it is the main reason for Roxie's runs... [but] We pay a lot of cheese tax in the house [i.e., when we eat cheese, the dog demands to also be given some].
- 3.
gánh nặng
A burdensome demand
ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'gánh nặng' thường được dùng để chỉ những trách nhiệm hoặc khó khăn gây áp lực lên tinh thần hoặc thể chất, tương tự như cách dùng ẩn dụ của 'tax' trong tiếng Anh.
- a heavy tax on time or health
- In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.