capital gains tax

1. 1.

   a tax on capital gains

   “he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling”

   Broadertax

Questions about capital gains tax

What does capital gains tax mean?

capital gains tax means "a tax on capital gains".

Is capital gains tax a common word?

capital gains tax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.