tax

mandatory financial charge or other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or to regulate and reduce negative externalities
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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tax

Summary

tax ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tax is a type of tribute[2].
  • tax is a type of taxes and public duties[3].
  • tax's Commons category is recorded as Taxes[4].
  • tax's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tax[5].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[6].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Vlastenský slovník historický[7].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[10].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[12].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • tax's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[14].
  • tax's topic has template is recorded as Template:Taxation[15].
  • tax's has characteristic is recorded as type of tax[16].
  • tax's has characteristic is recorded as taxation[17].
  • tax's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Tax[18].
  • tax's different from is recorded as Podatek[19].
  • tax's studied by is recorded as taxation and revenue in economics[20].
  • tax's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[21].
  • tax's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].
  • tax's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Economics[23].
  • tax's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Taxation[24].
  • tax's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Finance & Investment[25].
  • tax's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Business[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include tribute[2] and taxes and public duties[3].

Why It Matters

tax ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month).[1] tax has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] tax is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2685, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 13d ago · Johshh · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Economics, WikiProject Taxation, WikiProject Finance & Investment +3
    Topic's main category Category:Tax
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    Has characteristic type of tax, taxation
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q14916674]]"
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