TAX in a Sentence

Learn TAX from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
275 example sentences for TAX, such as:
1. The new tax laws affect most people.
2. The tax will affect only the propertied classes.
3. She can't pay her tax and is facing court action.
4. The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
5. He used the occasion to announce further tax cuts.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TAX
tax
 v.  set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
 v.  use to the limit
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  There went the tax money and part of the money which was to see them through this bitter winter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  The extra tax assessment and the danger of losing Tara were matters Scarlett had to know about--and right away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  Can't no Democrat in this state vote if he was on the tax books for more than two thousand dollars in 'sixty-five.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  It's not only for this year that I'll need tax money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  If I make a good cotton crop, they'll tax it till I'll get nothing for it or maybe confiscate it outright and say it's Confederate cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  In her desperation to obtain the tax money, no thought save Tara and the fate which threatened it had any place in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The least I could have done was go out and commit highway robbery or murder to get the tax money for you when you had taken us in as beggars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  Be it so," said the King; "but for thine own sake tax me not with usurpation now.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  "I will not impose any further tax upon Lady Brackenstall's patience and time," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
10  He has had some terrible shock, and I fear it might tax his poor brain if he were to try to recall it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  You are sick and weak, and have had much sorrow and much mental pain, as well as that tax on your strength that we know of.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Nevertheless, said Chichikov, the general equity of this measure did not obviate a certain amount of annoyance to landowners, since it forced them to pay upon a non-living article the tax due upon a living.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  And this arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
14  "It's no bargain you're getting and I am glad not to have to pay more taxes on the place," sighed the possessor of an "ace full," as he called for pen and ink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  To make matters worse, there was the question of taxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
2  Britain's tax system takes no account of children.
3  The new tax laws should act as a stimulus to exports.
4  She can't pay her tax and is facing court action.
5  A reduction in corporate tax should act as a stimulus to economic activity.
6  The police never caught him in any criminal activity but he eventually fell foul of the tax authorities.
7  The new property tax law won't directly affect us.
8  The new tax laws affect most people.
9  The tax will affect only the propertied classes.
10  Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.
11  For Republicans it is almost an article of faith that this tax should be cut.
12  The new tax could wreak havoc among smaller companies.
13  The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to announce tax cuts in this year's budget.
14  He used the occasion to announce further tax cuts.
15  The government is/are expected to announce its/their tax proposals today.