income tax

1. 1.

   a personal tax levied on annual income

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Questions about income tax

What does income tax mean?

income tax means "a personal tax levied on annual income".

Is income tax a common word?

income tax is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.