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progressive tax
(redirected from Ability-to-pay taxation)

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Noun1.progressive tax - any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases
revenue enhancement, tax, taxation - charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government


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83) As Dennis Ventry has written, The ideal of civic virtue created a unique form of ability-to-pay taxation that was hostile to excess accumulation and to citizens who asserted entitlement through birth.
 
 
 
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