road tax

noun

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

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How to use road tax in a sentence

Every male adult pays a poll tax of one dollar, a school tax of two dollars, and a road tax of two dollars.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands | Charles Nordhoff
Property within the corporation is exempt from county road tax and district school tax.
A Virginia Village | Charles A. Stewart
Why these people are content to work out their road-tax by such sore travail of mind and body appeareth to us mysterious.
A Trip to Cuba | Julia Ward Howe
Instead of a road tax, a few days' statute labour annually sufficed.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 | Edgerton Ryerson
It was argued that the streets were valuable, and that the companies should pay a road tax of a thousand dollars a mile.
The Financier | Theodore Dreiser

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