head tax

American  

noun

1. a uniform tax or surcharge imposed upon every person or every adult in a specific group, as on those entering or leaving a country or using a particular service or conveyance.

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Example Sentences

Now, Johnson is pushing perhaps his most divisive revenue idea yet: the corporate head tax, initially pitched as $21-per-employee each month for businesses with over 100 employees.

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Business groups remain vehemently opposed to the head tax.

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“I am not a supporter of the head tax at any level,” Alderman Pat Dowell, whom Mr. Johnson appointed to the finance committee, told reporters this month.

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Alderman Timmy Knudsen said the mayor’s office had falsely claimed he was a supporter of the head tax.

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“This head tax is only going to make things worse,” Alderman Brendan Reilly said.

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