Tax

A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e.g., tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). Taxes could also be imposed by a subnational entity.

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Taxes may be paid in cash or in kind or as corv?e labor. In modern capitalist taxation systems, taxes are designed to encourage the most efficient circulation of commodified goods and services and are levied in cash. In kind and corvee taxation are characteristic of traditional or pre-capitalist states and their functional equivalents. The means of taxation, and the uses to which the funds raised through taxation should be put, are a matter of hot dispute in politics and economics, so discussions of taxation are frequently tendentious.

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Public finance is the field of political science and economics that deals with taxation.

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Legal entity: A legal entity is a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were an individual for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts. This allows for easy conduct of business by having ownership, lawsuits, and...

State: :This article discusses states as sovereign political entities. For other meanings, see state (disambiguation)....

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Tax related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Tax Collector	Two Tax Gatherers c.1540	At the Tax Collector's	The Tax Collector 1543
Wat Tyler Attacks the Poll-Tax Collector	Suppliant Peasants in the Office of Two Tax Collectors	Provost of Merchants and Aldermen of Paris Scene of Tax Collection