overtax
verb (used with object)
to tax too heavily.
overtaxation
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a word derived from
overtax.
Example Sentences
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The billionaire, who moved the company's headquarters from California to Texas this month after his personal move last year, also slammed California for "overtaxation."
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2021
“Our arm was twisted,” Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has said regarding the tax burden, admitting that overtaxation wasn’t the best solution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2018
By official accounts, there were 58,000 protests in 2003, as workers, peasants and even stock-market investors fought everything from corruption to overtaxation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, the actual amount taken each year in the shape of overtaxation was variously estimated to be between two and three quarters and three millions.
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
With the fire hazard lessened there will remain the obstacle of overtaxation on property returning no income with which to meet it.
From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Edward Tyson Allen
