Definition of Nuisance tax

1. Noun. A tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer.

Exact synonyms: Sales Tax
Generic synonyms: Excise, Excise Tax

Definition of Nuisance tax

1. Noun. A tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services, payable by the customer and transmitted by the seller to the taxing authority. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuisance Tax

nugatory
nuggar
nuggars
nugget
nugget of truth
nuggetlike
nuggets
nuggety
nugifying
nugs
nuh
nuh-uh
nuisance
nuisance abatement
nuisance fee
nuisance tax (current term)
nuisance taxes
nuisance value
nuisancer
nuisancers
nuisances
nuke
nukeable
nuked
nuker
nukers
nukes
nuking
nukundamite
nul point

Literary usage of Nuisance tax

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hearings on Internal-revenue Revision Before the Committee on Ways and Means by United States Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (1921)
"The other bill is on the same line as Mr. Longworth's, taking out what is called the nuisance tax on soda water, theaters, and things of that sort. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Injunctions by James Lambert High (1890)
"... it can not, for the purpose of abating the nuisance, tax the lots themselves, and a sale of such lots for payment of the tax will be enjoined.5 And ..."

3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1914)
"Partnership Name nuisance tax on Successions . Cambridge Fire Insurance 54469 50 349 206 205 585 590 130 275 426, 428, 429, 430 Fraternal Beneficiary ..."

4. City Documents by Chelsea (Mass, Chelsea (Mass.) (1912)
"... Metropolitan Parks Tax 12921 49 State Highway Tax 48 oo Abatement of Smoke nuisance tax 77 °9 Charles River Basin Tax 1089 75 Appropriation from loan, ..."

5. Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington by Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams (1910)
"... restrain the collection of the special assessment, and the trial court held the nuisance tax illegal. This view was sustained by the supreme court on a ..."

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