Synonyms for tax
All synonyms
Noun
1. Levy — money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g.…
levy, duty, assessment, impost, excise, charge, charre UK, imposition, exaction, toll, contribution, rate, demand, tribute, burden, requisition, load, custom dated
Definitions
- n. 1
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).
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- taxes → levies, duties, assessments, imposts…
Example sentences
- levy Gideon Levy says that Israel is not a democracy.
- imposition Is to reason and to be mistaken, an imposition?
- fee Of course, neither goods nor mailing fee returned.
- taxation Income from this source is exempt from taxation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| tax | falling | |
| levy | falling | |
| excise | falling | |
| imposition | falling | |
| impost | falling | |
| fee | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fee1
- 4 letters
- rate1, duty2, load1, toll1, levy2, scot1
- 6 letters
- charge1, demand2, custom2, burden2, strain1, excise2, impost, charre
- 7 letters
- tribute2
- 8 letters
- taxation3, exaction3
- 10 letters
- assessment3, imposition4
- 11 letters
- requisition4
- 12 letters
- contribution4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (duty2 = 2 syllables).