taxe

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See also: Taxe and taxé

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /taks/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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taxe f (plural taxes)

  1. tax

Usage notes

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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

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Derived terms

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See also

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Verb

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taxe

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

Further reading

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Latin

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Noun

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taxe

  1. vocative singular of taxus

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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taxe (plural taxes)

  1. A tax or charge.
Descendants
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  • English: tax (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: tax
References
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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taxe

  1. Alternative form of taxen

Norman

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Etymology

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

Noun

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taxe f (plural taxes)

  1. (Jersey) tax

Old English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tāxe f

  1. toad

Declension

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Synonyms

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Portuguese

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Verb

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taxe

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