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Definition of sin tax in English: sin taxnoun informal A tax on items such as alcohol or tobacco. Example sentencesExamples - Some critics of the proposed tax wonder whether it's a sin tax or a luxury tax.
- He finds that whether the sin tax is binary or triangular, it has several harmful effects.
- For smokers and drinkers, sin tax has hit pockets particularly hard.
- Hasn't it been proven that so-called sin taxes against tobacco and alcohol have reduced consumption?
- While sin taxes aren't technically ‘general taxes,’ they still hit Washingtonians' pockets.
- Any move to remove ATMs from pubs has been resisted strongly by rent-seeking industry lobbies and State governments living off sin taxes have passively acquiesced.
- The government must get it into their heads that customers shell out hard-earned money in restaurants towards greedy sin taxes.
- It's a tax on the willing, a proverbial sin tax,’ similar to taxes on liquor or tobacco.
- Lawmakers are considering hiking so-called sin taxes on cigarettes and booze, although you've got to wonder how high the price of those things can go.
- The alternative to cuts is to raise taxes, of course, but a majority of the legislatures polled favored only increases in sin taxes, on cigarettes, liquor and so on.
- Whatever the tax rate is, it will go up because it's easier for the state to raise so-called sin taxes when the economy falls on hard times.
- As long as the sin taxes are rolling in, I say light up.
- His peaches are so sumptuous, fans say the fruit should either have a sin tax applied or be declared illegal.
- With few exceptions, taxes were raised across the board (not simply income taxes but sales tax, fuel tax, and popular sin taxes).
Definition of sin tax in US English: sin taxnounˈsin ˌtaks informal A tax on items considered undesirable or harmful, such as alcohol or tobacco. Example sentencesExamples - Hasn't it been proven that so-called sin taxes against tobacco and alcohol have reduced consumption?
- While sin taxes aren't technically ‘general taxes,’ they still hit Washingtonians' pockets.
- Any move to remove ATMs from pubs has been resisted strongly by rent-seeking industry lobbies and State governments living off sin taxes have passively acquiesced.
- With few exceptions, taxes were raised across the board (not simply income taxes but sales tax, fuel tax, and popular sin taxes).
- It's a tax on the willing, a proverbial sin tax,’ similar to taxes on liquor or tobacco.
- Whatever the tax rate is, it will go up because it's easier for the state to raise so-called sin taxes when the economy falls on hard times.
- The alternative to cuts is to raise taxes, of course, but a majority of the legislatures polled favored only increases in sin taxes, on cigarettes, liquor and so on.
- Some critics of the proposed tax wonder whether it's a sin tax or a luxury tax.
- He finds that whether the sin tax is binary or triangular, it has several harmful effects.
- For smokers and drinkers, sin tax has hit pockets particularly hard.
- His peaches are so sumptuous, fans say the fruit should either have a sin tax applied or be declared illegal.
- The government must get it into their heads that customers shell out hard-earned money in restaurants towards greedy sin taxes.
- As long as the sin taxes are rolling in, I say light up.
- Lawmakers are considering hiking so-called sin taxes on cigarettes and booze, although you've got to wonder how high the price of those things can go.
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