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
  • Web税收(taxation)；税金；税务
Plural Form：taxes  Present Participle：taxing  Past Tense：taxed  

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TAX
n.
— see also
corporation tax
,
council tax
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direct tax
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indirect tax
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inheritance tax
,
poll tax
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road tax
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sales tax
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stealth tax
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value added tax
,
withholding tax
1.
[c][u]
税；税款money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services. People pay tax according to their income and businesses pay tax according to their profits. Tax is also often paid on goods and services.
to raise/cut taxes
增加╱削减税收
tax increases/cuts
税款的增加╱削减
changes in tax rates
税率的变化
to pay over £1 000 in tax
缴纳 1 000 多英镑的税款
profits before/after tax
税前╱税后利润
a tax on cigarettes
香烟税
v.
1.
~ sb/sth
对…征税；课税；使纳税to put a tax on sb/sth; to make sb pay tax
Any interest payments are taxed as part of your income.
利息所得作为你收入的一部分要予以征税。
His declared aim was to tax the rich.
他宣布他的目的是向富人征税。
2.
~ sth
缴纳车辆牌照税to pay tax on a vehicle so that you may use it on the roads
The car is taxed until July.
这辆汽车的牌照税缴纳到了七月。
3.
~ sb/sth
使负重担；使受压力；使大伤脑筋to need a great amount of physical or mental effort
The questions did not tax me.
那些问题没有让我费脑筋。
The problem is currently taxing the brains of the nation's experts(= making them think very hard) .
目前这个问题使得全国的专家大伤脑筋。

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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。
mín zhǔ dǎng běn lái shì fǎn duì jiā shuì jì huà de , dàn yóu yú tōng huò péng zhàng jiā jù , mín zhǔ dǎng de shuì shōu zhèng cè lái le gè yì bǎi bā shí dù de dà zhuǎn wān 。
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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。
àn zhào bèi shuì wù rén yuán shōu zǒu de GDP fèn é héng liáng , dà duō shù guó jiā zài èr shí yī shì jì guǎi diǎn yǐ lái de shuì shōu fù dān dōu xià jiàng le 。
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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。
suō luó bù yuàn yì jiǎo shuì de yuán yīn , shì wèi le duì tā bù yuàn yì zhī chí de nú lì zhì dù yǔ mò xī gē zhàn zhēng biǎo shì kàng yì 。
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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。
méi bì yào wèi le shuì shōu ér zhēng zhí , shì shí shàng duì fù rén hé qióng rén yǒu zhe shí bèi de chā jù 。
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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。
zhè yī zuì gāo shuì lǜ shì yóu qián gōng dǎng zhèng fǔ tuī xíng de , mù qián hái bú shì hěn qīng chǔ gāi shuì lǜ néng wèi zhèng fǔ chóu dào duō shao qián 。
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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。
yóu yú wú fǎ huò de jí xū de dài kuǎn lái fù qīng tuō qiàn de dà bǐ shuì kuǎn , gāi gōng sī yú dàng rì xuān bù yóu zhèng fǔ tuō guǎn 。
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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。
rú guǒ nǐ rèn wéi shuì shōu tǐ xì shì bù gōng zhèng de , zé guài chuàng zào tā de rén ba , bié zé guài cóng zhōng huò lì de jīn róng jiā 。
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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。
dàn wǒ men xiàn zài suǒ shèng shí rì wú duō , zài guò jǐ tiān , fǎ lǜ jiù yào guī dìng měi gè rén de shuì lǜ dōu jiāng shàng zhǎng 。
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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。
bā jī sī tǎn zhèng fǔ jué dìng bǎ yā suō tiān rán qì jiā shuì jì huà tuī chí yī nián 。
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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。
dàn shì zhè xiē shuō fǎ zài ōu zhōu bìng bù jù yǒu shuō fú lì , ōu zhōu rèn wéi yǐ jīng zhǎo dào le zǔ zhǐ jīn róng jī gòu táo shuì de bàn fǎ 。
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