Lexic.us

Definition of License tax

1. Noun. A fee paid to the government for the privilege of being licensed to do something (as selling liquor or practicing medicine).

Lexicographical Neighbors of License Tax

Literary usage of License tax

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
""(2) The court erred In holding that the proposed testimony relating to the method of determining the amount of license tax assessed against defendant was ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The ordinance was as follows, to wit: "Be it ordained by the Mobile Police Board, that the license tax for the year, from the 15th of March, 1883, ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Commerce €=>69—Power to Impose license tax on telegraph companies must have relation to interstate business. The power to impose a license tax on a ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"When, therefore, a State expressly '*• mitt may impose a license tax on the keep- ! ... Draymen may be compelled to pay a license tax on ..."

5. A Treatise on the Power of Taxation, State and Federal, in the United States by Frederick Newton Judson (1903)
"license tax on agents of interstate railroads held invalid. 210. Immaterial that license interfering with commerce purports to be for regulation and not for ..."

6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference Under the Auspices of the National by National Tax Association (1922)
"This state also provides for a license tax on oil-producers, ... A license tax is also provided on both wholesale and retail dealers in gasoline and ..."

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