Tax

Tax and treasury.

1. Noun.

A compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue.

Levied on the income or property of persons or organisations, on the sale price of many goods and services and on certain other transactions.

Examples include Corporation Tax, Value Added Tax and customs duty.

2. Verb.

To levy a tax.

See also

• Accruals basis
• Advance tax ruling
• Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation
• Business rates
• Capacity
• Capital Gains Tax
• Capital tax
• Carbon tax
• Cash basis
• Charge
• Claims and elections
• Cliff edge
• Code
• Competence
• Compliance
• Concession
• Contract
• Corporation Tax
• Customs duty
• DEBRA
• Deferred tax
• Determination
• Direct tax
• Directive
• Double tax treaties
• Double taxation
• Duty
• Effective tax rate
• Enforcement
• Ethics
• Federal Corporate Income Tax
• Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)
• Foreign tax credit
• Framework
• Global minimum corporate tax rate
• Good practice
• Governance
• Guidance
• His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
• Income Tax
• Indirect tax
• Inheritance tax
• Input tax
• Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• Jurisdiction
• Landfill Tax
• Law
• Legislation
• Levy
• Marginal rate of tax
• National Insurance
• OECD model tax convention
• Output tax
• Payroll tax
• Preferential tax regime
• Principle
• Profit after tax
• Profit before tax
• Red tape
• Regime
• Regulation
• Reporting
• Reputational risk
• Rules
• Sales Tax
• Schedular system
• Standards
• Stealth tax
• Supervision
• Supertax
• Surcharge
• Tax arbitrage
• Tax avoidance
• Tax base
• Tax break
• Tax capacity
• Tax compliance
• Tax computation
• Tax credit
• Tax depreciation
• Tax evasion
• Tax harmonisation
• Tax haven
• Tax inversion
• Tax planning
• Tax rate
• Tax reconciliation
• Tax relief
• Tax risk
• Tax ruling
• Tax shelter
• Tax shield
• Tax sparing
• Tax written down value (TWDV)
• Tax yield
• Trust
• UK Bank Levy
• Value Added Tax (VAT)
• Wealth tax
• Withholding tax