indirect tax

1. 1.

   a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations

   Broadertax

   Narrowerhidden taxdutyexcise

Questions about indirect tax

What does indirect tax mean?

indirect tax means "a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations".

Is indirect tax a common word?

indirect 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.