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The amendment approved Tuesday calls for the new income tax -- called the Regional Transportation Improvement Income Tax -- to take effect on Oct. 1 in the year that the tax is adopted, after the transit board approves a resolution and gives public notice of the tax in each county in which it is proposed.

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  1. noun A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.
  2. noun A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
  3. noun A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.
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  • Labeling something as a tax is a way to get the attention of many voters. —  Agriculture Online - Market News
  • How anyone can see camera fines as a tax is absurd, they are punishment for commiting a crime putting others lives at risk. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • I can see the need to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emmisions, but yet another tax is the last thing Canadians need. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • If one buys this, it seems a vote against the tax is a vote against children and long walks with Fido, the family dog. —  Gazette.com :
  • Public officials know the tax is almost certain to fail. —  Gazette.com :
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income ·  debt ·  fund ·  cost ·  fee ·  expense ·  taxation ·  policy ·  trade ·  money ·  bill ·  budget

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tax:   taxes ·  taxing ·  taxed
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  1. Middle English, from taxen, to tax, from Old French taxer, from Medieval Latin taxāre, from Latin, to touch, reproach, reckon, frequentative of tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English taxen, from Old French (and F.) taxer = Provencal taxar = Old Spanish tassar, Spanish tasar = Portuguese taxar = Italian tassare, from Latin taxare, handle, rate, value, appraise, tax, censure, Middle Latin also charge, burden, task; prob. for *tagsare, freq. (with formative -s) of tangere (√ tag), past participle tactus, touch: see tangent, take, and cf. tact, taste, from the same source, and task, ult. the same verb in a transposed form.
  2. from Middle English tax, taxe, from Old French (and F.) taxe = Provencal taxa = Old Spanish tassa, Spanish tasa = Portuguese taxa = Italian tassa, from Middle Latin taxa, also tasca, a taxation, tax, from Latin taxare, touch, rate, appraise, estimate: see tax, v. Cf. task, n.
 

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