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mistax en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + tax.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To tax inappropriately.
   • If a rare transaction is mistaxed, taxpayers have an incentive to find it and exploit it. 2004, Henry Aaron, Joel Slemrod, The Crisis in Tax Administration, page 36:
   • That citizens would not be unrepresented, mistaxed, overlorded, or involuntarily impressed into military service put the country in a New World indeed. 2008, Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln: A History:
   • More generally, the policy concern that the use of carried interests enables labor income to be mistaxed as preferential capital gain would not seem to depend upon how long a particular investment is held. 2020, George K. Yin, Karen C. Burke, Partnership Taxation, page 328:

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