taxe

See also: Taxe and taxé

French

Etymology

From the verb taxer. Cf. also Medieval Latin taxa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taks/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

taxe f (plural taxes)

1. tax

Usage notes

While both taxe and impôt are translated into English as tax, in French there is a distinction, not always observed. Formally, a taxe is levied on transactions, such as a sales tax or stamp duty, while an impôt is a compulsory charge, such as assessed on persons – an income tax, a poll tax, or a property tax, and the like.

However, usage is inconsistent, and taxe is often used generically to refer to all such levies, though this is decried by some as an Anglicism (due to influence from tax). See French Wikipedia articles on impôt and taxe for detailed discussion of formal definitions and usage.

The phrase «impôt et taxes» may be translated simply as “taxes”, or, if one wishes to emphasize a distinction, as “taxes and duties” (such as stamp duty). A more idiomatic, if less accurate, British translation would be “revenue and customs”, referring to HM Revenue and Customs.

Coordinate terms

• impôt

Derived terms

• taxe de vente
• taxe sur la valeur ajoutée
• taxe sur la vente
• taxe sur les produits et services

 

Related terms

• taxer

See also

• taux

Verb

taxe

1. inflection of taxer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “taxe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

taxe

1. vocative singular of taxus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Either a back-formation from taxen or borrowed from Middle French taxe. Doublet of taske.

Alternative forms

• tax

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaks(ə)/

Noun

taxe (plural taxes)

1. A tax or charge.

Descendants

• English: tax (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: tax

References

• “tax(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

taxe

1. Alternative form of taxen

Norman

Etymology

From Old French taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxō, taxāre (“handle; censure; appraise; compute”, verb).

Noun

taxe f (plural taxes)

1. (Jersey) tax

Old English

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Old English tādie (“toad”), Old English tosca, toxa (“frog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːk.se/

Noun

tāxe f

1. toad

Declension

Declension of tāxe (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tāxe	tāxan
accusative	tāxan	tāxan
genitive	tāxan	tāxena
dative	tāxan	tāxum

Synonyms

• *padda
• tādie

Portuguese

Verb

taxe

1. inflection of taxar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative