excise

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Supporters have painted the tax as an "excise", but opponents question this view believeing that an excise is a tax that is strictly limited to privileged or luxury goods and activities.

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  1. noun An internal tax imposed on the production, sale, or consumption of a commodity or the use of a service within a country: excises on tobacco, liquor, and long-distance telephone calls.
  2. noun A licensing charge or a fee levied for certain privileges.
  3. transitive verb To levy an excise on.
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  • John Randolph, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, reported, March 2, 1802, against the entire system of internal duties, in the old words of the Pennsylvania radicals, as vexatious, oppressive, and peculiarly obnoxious; as of the nature of an excise which is hostile to the genius of a free people, and finally because of their tendency to multiply offices and increase the patronage of the executive. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • The duty was branded with the hateful epithet of an excise, a species of taxation, it was said, so peculiarly oppressive as to be abhorred even in England, and which was totally incompatible with the spirit of liberty. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
  • Supporters have painted the tax as an "excise", but opponents question this view believeing that an excise is a tax that is strictly limited to privileged or luxury goods and activities. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • He committed the party to retaining the coalition policies on a five cent reduction in the fuel excise, as well as its plan to oppose a raft of government policies in the Senate, including changes to the Medicare levy surcharge threshold. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • So then let us say, "to excise, or not to excise, that is the question." —  THAT Animeblog
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  1. Middle Dutch excijs, alteration (influenced by Latin excīsus, past participle of excīdere, to cut out) of accijs, tax, probably from Old French acceis, partly from Vulgar Latin *accēnsum (Latin ad-, ad- + Latin cēnsus, tax; see census) and partly from Old French assise, legislative ordinance; see assize.
  2. Latin excīdere, excīs- : ex-, ex- + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also excize; from Latin excisus, past participle of excidere, cut out, from ex, out, + cædere, cut: see excide.
  2. A corruption (associated, as in the 2d extract below, with excise, from Latin excisus, past participle of excidere, cut off: see excise) of earlier accise = Middle Dutch aksiis, aksys = Greek aceise = Danish accise = Swedish accis, excise; cf. modern F. accise, Italian accisa (Middle Latin accisia), excise, apparently a corruption (as if from Latin accisus, past participle of accidere, cut into) of Old French assis, assessments, taxes (cf. Spanish Portuguese sisa, excise, tax), from assise, an assize, sessions: see assize, assess, size. The assumed change of assise to accise is irreg., and the relation of the Teutonic and Roman forms is uncertain.
  3. from excise, n.
 

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