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• any interest payments are taxed as part of your income.
• his declared aim was to tax the rich.
• the car is taxed until july.
• the questions did not tax me.

tax

1. to put a tax on somebody/something; to make somebody pay tax
• Any interest payments are taxed as part of your income.
• His declared aim was to tax the rich.
2. to pay tax on a vehicle so that you may use it on the roads
• The car is taxed until July.
3. to need a great amount of physical or mental effort
• The questions did not tax me.
• The problem is currently taxing the brains of the nation's experts (= making them think very hard).

Extra Examples

• Drinks would be taxed according to their alcoholic strength.
• Many goods were taxed at 17.5%.
• Many self-employed people are heavily taxed.
• You will be taxed on all your income.
• goods which are most heavily taxed

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they tax
• he / she / it taxes
• past simple taxed
• past participle taxed
• -ing form taxing

Word Origin

• Middle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’.