TAX

TAX. → Poll Ex 30:11-16; 38:26; Ne 10:32; Lu 2:1 → Jesus pays Mt 17:24-27 → Land Ge 41:34,48; 2Ki 23:35 → Land mortgaged for Ne 5:3,4 → Priests exempted from Ge 47:26; Ezr 7:24 → Paid in grain Am 5:11; 7:1 → Paid in provisions 1Ki 4:7-28 → Personal 1Ki 9:15; 2Ki 15:19,20; 23:35 → Resisted by Israelites 1Ki 12:18; 2Ch 10:18 → World-wide, levied by Caesar → The R. V. changes the reading to enrolled instead of taxed Lu 2:1-3 → Collectors of 2Sa 20:24; 1Ki 4:6; Isa 33:18; Da 11:20; Mr 2:14; Lu 3:13; 5:27 → Unpopular Mt 5:46; 9:11; 11:19; 18:17; 21:31; Lu 18:11 → Stoned 2Ch 10:18

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tax. Tax, n. an impost, duty, trigute, censure, charge

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Tax (?), n. [[F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]] 1. 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: —
(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. Macaulay. (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like. Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
3. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
4. 4. Charge; censure. Clarendon.
5. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. Johnson.
Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. Syn. — Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.