tax
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n.:
税；税款
v.:
课税；对…征税；使纳税；缴纳车辆牌照税
网络:
税收(taxation)；税金；税务
Word forms: (复数) taxes (现在分词) taxing (过去式) taxed
Examples
1.
The democratic Party used to be against the tax increase, but since the runaway inflation, it took a U-turn on it's tax policy.
民主党本来是反对加税计划的，但由于通货膨胀加剧，民主党的税收政策来了个180度的大转弯。
2.
measured by the share of GDP gobbled up by the taxman, tax burdens have come down in most countries since the turn of the 21st century.
按照被税务人员收走的GDP份额衡量，大多数国家在21世纪拐点以来的税收负担都下降了。
3.
Thoreau withheld the tax as a protest against slavery and the war with Mexico, which he did not support.
梭罗不愿意缴税的原因，是为了对他不愿意支持的奴隶制度与墨西哥战争表示抗议。
4.
There is no argument for a tax break worth, in practice, ten times as much to the rich as to the poor.
没必要为了税收而争执，事实上对富人和穷人有着十倍的差距。
5.
It is not yet fully clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise.
这一最高税率是由前工党政府推行的，目前还不是很清楚该税率能为政府筹到多少钱。
6.
Unable to borrow the money it needed to pay off a large tax bill it owed, Cains put the company into administration on the same day.
由于无法获得急需的贷款来付清拖欠的大笔税款，该公司于当日宣布由政府托管。
7.
If you think the tax system is unfair, blame the people who created it, not the financiers who took advantage of it.
如果你认为税收体系是不公正的，责怪创造它的人吧，别责怪从中获利的金融家。
8.
But we're now at the point where, in just a couple days, the law says that every American's tax rates are going up.
但我们现在所剩时日无多，再过几天，法律就要规定每个人的税率都将上涨。
9.
The Pakistan government has decided to defer by a year a planned increase in a tax on compressed natural gas.
巴基斯坦政府决定把压缩天然气加税计划推迟一年。
10.
But those arguments have not proved persuasive in Europe, which thinks it has found a way to keep institutions from avoiding the tax.
但是这些说法在欧洲并不具有说服力，欧洲认为已经找到了阻止金融机构逃税的办法。