revenue enhancement

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revenue enhancement - charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of governmenttax, taxationwithholding - the act of deducting from an employee's salaryimposition, infliction - the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)accumulator, collector, gatherer - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)net estate - the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)disposable income - income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spendingunearned income, unearned revenue - personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)deductible - (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax)budget items, operating cost, operating expense, overhead - the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxeslevy - a charge imposed and collectedsingle tax - a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land)income tax - a personal tax levied on annual incomecapital gains tax - a tax on capital gains; "he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling"capital levy - a tax on capital or propertydeparture tax - a tax that is levied when you are departing a country by land or sea or airfranchise tax - a tax that is imposed by states on corporations; it depends both on the net worth of the corporation and on its net income attributable to activities within the stategift tax - a tax imposed on transfers of property by gift during the lifetime of the giverdirect tax - a tax paid directly by the person or organization on whom it is leviedindirect tax - a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizationshidden tax - a tax paid unwittingly by the consumer (such as ad valorem taxes)capitation - a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per persongraduated tax, progressive tax - any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increasesproportional tax - any tax in which the rate is constant as the amount subject to taxation increasesdegressive tax - any tax in which the rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increasesrates - a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)stamp duty, stamp tax - a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications)pavage - a tax toward paving streetstransfer tax - any tax levied on the passing of title to propertyspecial assessment - an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the propertycharge - financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"deductible - acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction)progressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increasesregressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases