INCOME TAX RETURN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does income tax return mean? 

• INCOME TAX RETURN (noun)
  The noun INCOME TAX RETURN has 1 sense:

1. document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability

  Familiarity information: INCOME TAX RETURN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOME TAX RETURN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

income tax return; return; tax return

Context example:

his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return

Hypernyms ("income tax return" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "income tax return"):

amended return (a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return)

declaration of estimated tax; estimated tax return (return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year)

false return (an incorrect income tax return)

information return (a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability)

joint return (a return filed by a husband and wife)