GRADUATED TAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graduated tax mean? 

• GRADUATED TAX (noun)
  The noun GRADUATED TAX has 1 sense:

1. any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRADUATED TAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

graduated tax; progressive tax

Hypernyms ("graduated tax" is a kind of...):

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)