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Meaning of maltaxation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
/mæltækˈseɪʃən/

Definitions

Taxation imposed in an exaggerate, unjust, or unlawful way.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“It would have been a most tedious if not impossible task for any American tax-payer, I care not how skillful in mathematics or conversan^([sic]) with Federal statutes or expert in custom-house rules and regulations he may have been, to have commenced on the 1st day of January, 1883, with all the lights before him, and by the most scrupulous observance of his food and raiment, investments and expenditures, specifics and ad valorems, every art and part of the cost of his daily life, up to the 1st day of January, 1884, and then told how much taxes he paid to the General Government during the year, either in separate items or aggregate amounts; and the problem would be still more embarrassing if it involved the segregation of the legitimate contributions to governmental support from those which went to the benefit of class interests through maltaxation.”
“It aimed at the abolition of Turkish misrule, oppression and maltaxation, at the ejection of the Turks from the Arabian peninsula, and the formation of a confederation of Arab tribes.”
“Some cities are born bankrupt because of maltaxation.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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