单词 | internal revenue |
释义 | > as lemmasinternal revenue internal revenue n. chiefly U.S. revenue derived from duties and taxes imposed on domestic trade and commerce; inland revenue (also occasionally in plural in same sense); (also, often with capital initials) an agency responsible for collecting this; frequently attributive, esp. in Internal Revenue Service (cf. I.R.S. n. at I n.1 Initialisms). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income of a nation or state > derived from taxes finance?c1475 internal revenue1770 inland revenue1849 1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. 403 As to the taxes from whence the internal revenues arise, they are various, arbitrary, and so much suited to conveniency, that we cannot fix them at any certainty. 1783 P. Webster 6th Ess. Free Trade & Finance 24 To raise and manage the internal revenue, so as to make the wealth of the country balance the public expenditures is not so easy a task. 1826 Colonial Times (Hobart, Tasmania) 6 May This Officer, together with the Receipt and Custody of all Public Money, is charged with the Collection of the Quit rents, and other Sources of internal Revenue. 1865 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 1 June 4/4 The blundering blockheads (so he calls them) of the Internal Revenue service. 1883 American 7 65 The new Commissioner of Internal Revenue in his first departmental report to the Secretary of the Treasury. 1917 Washington Post 15 Apr. (Mag. section) 4/2 Internal revenue officers..admit that they are baffled in their efforts to unmask the drug barons. 1920 Reports (U.S. Dept. Commerce) (1921) 342 Decrease in the use of alcoholmeters by the Internal Revenue Service during the fiscal year. 1990 R. M. Fried Nightmare in Red ii. 55 The quizzing of two women in Internal Revenue who were alleged to be Communists. 1991 Internat. Jrnl. Law & Family 5 234 Parent locator services search records such as internal revenue and social security records for information on the parents' whereabouts. < as lemmas |
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