Definition of Taxation

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Taxation

The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.

The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.

Tax; sum imposed.

Charge; accusation.

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Taxation Quotations

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Rush Limbaugh

Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
Edward Abbey

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry Pratchett

Taxation Translations

taxation in French is taxation
taxation in Swedish is beskattning

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