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

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Etymology

Origin of income tax

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

income tax

Asked whether he would consider cutting income tax rates for low- and middle-income Californians, he responded that “everything should be on the table.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

In the September quarter, AMD reported an accounting charge of $1.1 billion related to the company’s megadeal last year with OpenAI, which was mostly offset by an income tax provision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

In 2012, California voters approved a temporary increase in the income tax rate for the top 2% of California earners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

For all workers, the ongoing freeze in the income bands, or thresholds, at which income tax is paid went unmentioned in the Budget.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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