nuisance tax

1. 1.

   a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer

   Synonymssales tax

   Broaderexcise

Questions about nuisance tax

What does nuisance tax mean?

nuisance tax means "a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer".

What is another word for nuisance tax?

Close synonyms include sales tax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuisance tax a common word?

nuisance 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.