sales tax

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnuisance tax

   Broaderexcise

Questions about sales tax

What does sales tax mean?

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

What is another word for sales tax?

Close synonyms include nuisance 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 sales tax a common word?

sales 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.