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Definition of Surtax
1. Verb. Levy an extra tax on. "Surtax luxury items that cost more than $1,000"
2. Noun. An additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed.
Definition of Surtax
1. n. An additional or extra tax.
2. v. t. To impose an additional tax on.
Definition of Surtax
1. Noun. (legal) An additional or extra tax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surtax
1. to assess with an extra tax [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surtax
Literary usage of Surtax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Income Tax Problems --1922 by Emerson Emanuel Rossmoore (1922)
"In 1922 the surtax on the same net income would be the sum of ... PROBLEM 57
Illustrating Computation of the surtax In the Case of Profits Derived From the ..."
2. The American Republic: A Text in Civics for High Schools, Academies and by Samuel Eagle Forman (1911)
"In addition to the underlying or normal tax of two per cent. there is an additional
surtax graduated as follows: 1 per cent. surtax on incomes from 2 per ..."
3. The Commercial Year Book (1899)
"Cotton tissues containing threads of hump, jute, linen, ramie, or pita shall no
liable to a surtax of 15 per cent, of the duties applicable; thereto, ..."
4. Local Finance in Japan in Relation to Imperial Finance by Bunshiro Hattori (1906)
"The surtax on the national land tax.31 This is one of the most important ...
In 1901 cities, towns and villages received from this surtax 441,- 985 yen and ..."
5. Federal Income Tax, War-profits and Excess-profits Taxes: Including Stamp by George Edwin Holmes (1920)
"... of progressive rates (called the surtax) * on all the net income oVer $5000.
In the case of corporations no surtax is imposed, the income tax rate being ..."
6. Brief Business Arithmetic by Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes (1918)
"Computing the surtax. — The method of computing the surtax is best shown by an
... From the table of total surtax we find that the surtax on $100000 is ..."
7. Federal Income Tax, War-profits and Excess-profits Taxes: Including Stamp by George Edwin Holmes (1919)
"In addition to the normal tax a surtax is imposed at various and graduated ...
For the purpose of assessing the surtax the items deductible from net income ..."