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Definition of Indirect tax
1. Noun. A tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations.
Specialized synonyms: Hidden Tax, Duty, Tariff, Excise, Excise Tax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indirect Tax
Literary usage of Indirect tax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1876)
"... not necessarily an essential distinction between a direct and an indirect tax.
for we have seen that a direct tax may be converted intu an indirect tax, ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"The best sort of indirect tax is that which, by its effect in the character of
a prohibition, diminishes the consumption of an article the use of which is ..."
3. Denmark (2006)
"... benefit from substantial indirect tax subsidies People living in owner-occupied
houses and flats enjoy a substantial indirect tax subsidy. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Of an indirect tax each man pays no more than he pleases. ... An indirect tax is
levied upon articles of production at some period during their passage from ..."
5. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"It particularly included, besides stamp duties, excises on Tobacco and sugar
manufactured in the United States, and a tax on carriages, as an indirect tax. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United by Alexander James Dallas, Frederick Charles Brightly, United States Supreme Court (1905)
"There may, perhaps, be an indirect tax on a particular article, ... -I whether
a tax on the product of land be a direct or indirect tax. ..."
7. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American Social Science Association, Frederick Stanley Root, Isaac Franklin Russell (1900)
"The question was simply, What, as matter of common sense, does the word "indirect"
tax mean? Our Constitution declares that the taxes open to the federal ..."
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