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Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. / (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

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Source Word

tax

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tæks/

Noun

countable uncountable figuratively obsolete

Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. / (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

Japanese Meaning

政府に対して支払う税金。 / 過大な負担や要求、負担となるもの。

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Every year I set aside a portion of my income to pay the tax on my freelance earnings.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

毎年、フリーランスの収入にかかる税金を支払うために収入の一部を確保しています。

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Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

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