(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Tax is an amount of money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services.
They are calling for large spending cuts and ~ increases.
...a pledge not to raise ~es on people below a certain income...
N-VAR
2.
When a person or company is ~ed, they have to pay a part of their income or profits to the government. When goods are ~ed, a percentage of their price has to be paid to the government.
Husband and wife are now ~ed separately on their incomes...
The Bonn government ~es profits of corporations at a rate that is among the highest in Europe.
VERB: be V-ed, V n, also V
3.
If something ~es your strength, your patience, or your resources, it uses nearly all of them, so that you have great difficulty in carrying out what you are trying to do.
Overcrowding has ~ed the city’s ability to deal with waste...
VERB: V n
4.
see also ~ing , council ~ , income ~ , poll ~ , value added ~