road tax

noun

1. a tax paid, usually annually, on motor vehicles in use on the roads

Example Sentences

Every male adult pays a poll tax of one dollar, a school tax of two dollars, and a road tax of two dollars.

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Property within the corporation is exempt from county road tax and district school tax.

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Why these people are content to work out their road-tax by such sore travail of mind and body appeareth to us mysterious.

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Instead of a road tax, a few days' statute labour annually sufficed.

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It was argued that the streets were valuable, and that the companies should pay a road tax of a thousand dollars a mile.

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