income tax

American  

noun

income taxes plural

1. a tax levied on incomes, especially an annual government tax on personal incomes.

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income tax British  

noun

1. a personal tax, usually progressive, levied on annual income subject to certain deductions

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• income taxes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of income tax

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

income tax

Mayors are expected to start retaining some revenue from business rates from April 2027 and receive a portion of income tax from April 2028.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Less federal income tax, median state income tax and federal net investment income tax.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

One think tank, Re:State, has suggested, external the government should allocate mayors 2.5p in every pound raised by the 20p basic rate of income tax in their areas.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Perhaps the answer could be some combination of taxing gains at death and taxing inheritances under the federal income tax, as recently advocated by my colleague Ray Madoff.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

I had observed my father making his way through what, I now suppose, must have been income tax forms.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez