Synonyms:
taxation
Meaning: the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state
Synonyms:
tax_income, taxation, tax_revenue, revenue
Meaning: government income due to taxation
Synonyms:
tax, taxation, revenue_enhancement
Meaning: charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
Usage examples
By taxation.
Concerning the General Power of Taxation
The colonists, however, were determined that they would submit to no taxation whatever.
"This," said a distinguished economist, "is the high-water mark in the history of taxation.
Never before in the annals of civilization has an attempt been made to take as much as two-thirds of a man's income by taxation."
The conclusion is, that there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another.
It was not the stamp duty nor the tea-tax, but the principle involved in taxation without representation, against which our colonial fathers took up arms.
And thus all the resources of taxation might by degrees become the subjects of federal monopoly, to the entire exclusion and destruction of the State governments."
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.
The more intelligent adversaries of the new Constitution admit the force of this reasoning; but they qualify their admission by a distinction between what they call INTERNAL and EXTERNAL taxation.