Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aftertax | of profit, remaining after tax has been paid. |
agistment | a land tax assessed for cattle pasturing. |
assessable | liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property. |
avoision | a portmanteau coinage to denote blurring between tax avoidance and tax evasion. |
betaxed | burdened with taxes. |
cadaster | an official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
cadastre | an official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
cakeage | a charge levied in a restaurant for serving cake (such as a birthday cake) brought in from outside the premises. |
capitation | a uniform tax assessed by the head; a fee extracted from each student. |
capitative | relating to capitation. |
carnet | (Fr.) a customs or other permit; a book of coupons. |
carucage | a feudal tax levied on each carucate of land, i.e. as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough. |
cess | (Obs.) a tax, a local rate; (verb) to impose a tax. |
chout | (Hindi) in India, an assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue, extracted by the Mahrattas as blackmail. |
consulage | (Hist.) a duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place. |
corkage | the charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest. |
cranage | the use of a crane to hoist goods; the dues paid for this. |
danegeld | a tax imposed in the 10th century to buy off the Danes or to defend the country against them. |
danegelt | a tax imposed in the 10th century to buy off the Danes or to defend the country against them. |
decenary | a tithing. |
decennary | a tithing. |
derate | to relieve from paying rates. |
dockage | a charge for the use of a dock. |
dutiable | subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. |
duty | a moral or legal obligation. |
escuage | the tax on a knight's fee. |
excisable | liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity. |
expressage | the charge for carrying a parcel by express. |
ferriage | the price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry. |
forestage | a duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. |
fumage | a hearth-tax. |
gabelle | (Fr.) a salt tax. |
gabelled | subject to gabelle, a tax on salt. |
grainage | duties on grain. |
groundage | a charge on a ship in port. |
headage | a subsidy payable to farmers, based on the number of animals kept. |
hidage | a tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. |
husbandage | the commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband. |
impost | a tax, esp on imports; (verb) to determine customs duties. |
kane | (Gaelic) a tenanted farm rent paid in kind. |
knaveship | a small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller. |
ladler | one who ladles; (hist.) a collector of ladle dues. |
lastage | a duty formerly paid for the right of carrying goods, etc.. |
levy | a tax; an amount collected; (verb) to impose or collect eg taxes by legal authority. |
lighterage | a fee for carrying cargo by lighter. |
likin | (Chinese) a former Chinese transit duty. |
metage | the official weighing of goods; a charge for such weighing. |
mouter | (Scots) a miller's fee for grinding corn; (verb) to take mouter for. |
mouterer | (Scots) a person who pays or receives mouter, a miller's fee for grinding corn. |
mulct | to take money from, by taxation or by trickery. |
multure | a miller's fee for grinding corn; (verb) to take multure for. |
multurer | a person who pays or receives multure, a miller's fee for grinding corn. |
murage | (Hist.) a rate levied for the upkeep of a city's walls. |
nontariff | not involving a tariff. |
nontax | a tax of little consequence. |
nontaxable | not taxable. |
octroi | (Fr.) a duty levied on certain goods entering a town, esp in some European countries. |
overtax | to tax too heavily. |
overtaxation | excessive taxation. |
pavage | a charge for paving streets. |
pierage | a fee paid for the use of a pier. |
pontage | a toll paid on bridges; a tax for repairing bridges. |
postpaid | with the postage already paid. |
posttax | after tax. |
poundage | a charge for keeping stray cattle. |
pretax | before the deduction of tax. |
prisage | an ancient duty levied on imported wine until 1809. |
pulture | (Hist.) a foresters' claim of subsistence within the bounds of a forest. |
puture | (Hist.) a foresters' claim of subsistence within the bounds of a forest. |
quayage | dues levied on goods landed or shipped at a quay, or on ships using a quay. |
quitrent | a small nominal rent paid to commute feudal service. |
ratal | an amount on which rates are assessed. |
retax | to tax again. |
scalage | a percentage deducted to compensate for shrinkage. |
scatt | (Hist.) a tribute, a tax, esp in Orkney and Shetland. |
scavage | a toll formerly levied in boroughs on goods offered for sale by outsiders; (verb) to scavenge. |
scot | (Hist.) money assessed or paid. |
scrappage | allowance for scrap. |
scutage | (Hist.) the tax on a knight's fee. |
seigniorage | a government revenue from the manufacture of coins calculated as the difference between the monetary and the bullion value of the silver contained in silver coins. |
seignorage | a government revenue from the manufacture of coins calculated as the difference between the monetary and the bullion value of the silver contained in silver coins. |
sess | a tax, a local rate for the maintenance of soldiers; (verb) to assess (how much tax is owed). |
skat | (Hist.) a tribute, a tax, esp in Orkney and Shetland. |
stent | (Scots) assessment, valuation; tax; (verb) to stint. |
stentmaster | one who determines the amount of tax to be paid. |
streetage | a toll for street facilities. |
supertax | an additional tax. |
surtax | an additional tax; (verb) to tax additionally, charge surtax. |
taille | (Hist.) a tax levied by a French king or overlord on his subjects, or on lands held from or under him. |
tallage | a tax levied by the Norman and Angevin kings on their demesne lands and towns, or by a feudal lord on his tenants; (verb) to levy tallage. |
talliate | to lay a tallage upon. |
tankage | storing in tanks; a charge for this. |
tare | the weight of a vessel, wrapping or container, which subtracted from the gross weight gives the net weight; an allowance made for this; (verb) to ascertain and allow for the tare of. |
tariff | a list or set of customs duties; (verb) to tax imported or exported goods. |
tariffless | without a tariff. |
tax | a contribution levied towards a country's revenue; (verb) to impose a tax on. |
taxability | the state of being taxable. |
taxable | capable of being taxed (noun) a taxable item |
taxableness | the state of being taxable. |
taxably | (Adv.) TAXABLE, capable of being taxed. |
taxation | the process of taxing. |
taxational | relating to taxation. |
taxative | relating to taxation. |
taxer | one who imposes taxes. |
taxingly | (Adv.) TAXING, demanding. |
taxless | free from taxation. |
taxman | one who administers taxes. |
taxor | one who imposes taxes. |
taxpaid | with tax already paid. |
taxpayer | one that pays taxes. |
taxpaying | the paying of taxes. |
taxwise | pertaining to taxes. |
teind | (Scots) a tithe; (verb) to assess or take a tithe on. |
thirlage | (Scots) a form of servitude by which the grain produced on certain lands had to be ground (or at least paid for) at a certain mill. |
tithable | subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands. |
tollable | subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. |
tollage | payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. |
tollgate | a gate for the collection of tolls; (verb) to block a business deal pending the payment of a bribe. |
tollhouse | a house occupied by a receiver of tolls. |
towage | an act of towing; a fee for towing. |
transire | (Lat.) a ship's customs warrant for clearing goods. |
truckage | carriage by truck. |
tunnage | a tax of so much a tun on imported wines. |
undertax | to tax too low. |
unfeed | not retained by a fee, unpaid. |
unlevied | not levied. |
untax | to relieve of a tax. |
untaxable | not taxable. |
vatable | liable to VAT (value added tax). |
vatman | an employee of the Customs and Excise Board responsible for collecting VAT. |
wadset | (Scots) a kind of pledge or mortgage; (verb) to pawn or mortgage. |
wadsett | (Scots) a kind of pledge or mortgage; (verb) to pawn or mortgage. |
wadsetter | (Scots) one who holds by a wadset. |
wardcorn | (Hist.) the payment of corn in place of military service. |
waterage | a fee payed for travelling on water. |
weighage | a fee paid for weighing goods. |
wharfage | the fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods. |
yardage | the use of a yard, or the charge made for such. |
zabeta | (Arabic) a stated tariff. |
zakat | (Persian) in Islam, a tax payable on certain types of property. |