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

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

Only people earning under £12,570 - the personal allowance threshold - pay no income tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The top 1% of earners in New York state accounted for 46% of the state’s personal income tax revenue in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The city does not impose a local sales or income tax, and Michigan does not tax Social Security income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Colonel Korn was the lawyer, and if Colonel Korn assured him that fraud, extortion, currency manipulation, embezzlement, income tax evasion and black-market speculations were legal, Colonel Cathcart was in no position to disagree with him.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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