Phrase guide

income tax

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɪnˌkʌm tæks/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A tax levied on earned and unearned income, net of allowed deductions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a personal tax levied on annual income

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tax, taxation, revenue enhancement

Narrower terms: bracket creep, estimated tax, FICA, withholding tax, withholding, surtax, supertax

History

Etymology

From income + tax.

Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ضَرِيبَة اَلدَّخْل (ḍarībat ad-daḵl) — tax levied on income
  • Bulgarian: подоходен данък (podohoden danǎk) — tax levied on income
  • Catalan: impost sobre la renda — tax levied on income
  • Chinese Mandarin: 所得稅 /所得税 (suǒdéshuì) — tax levied on income
  • Czech: daň z příjmu — tax levied on income
  • Dutch: inkomstenbelasting — tax levied on income
  • Estonian: tulumaks — tax levied on income
  • Finnish: tulovero — tax levied on income
  • French: impôt sur le revenu — tax levied on income
  • Georgian: საშემოსავლო გადასახადი (sašemosavlo gadasaxadi) — tax levied on income
  • German: Einkommensteuer — tax levied on income
  • German: Ertragsteuer — tax levied on income
  • Greek: Φόρος εισοδήματος (Fóros eisodímatos) — tax levied on income
  • Hebrew: מס הכנסה (mas hakhnasah) — tax levied on income
  • Hindi: आयकर (āykar) — tax levied on income
  • Hungarian: jövedelemadó — tax levied on income
  • Indonesian: pajak penghasilan — tax levied on income
  • Irish: cáin ioncaim — tax levied on income
  • Japanese: 所得税 (shotokuzei) — tax levied on income
  • Javanese: pajeg opahan — tax levied on income
  • Korean: 소득세 (sodeukse) — tax levied on income
  • Malay: cukai pendapatan — tax levied on income
  • Malayalam: ആദായ നികുതി (ādāya nikuti) — tax levied on income
  • Maltese: taxxa tad-dħul — tax levied on income
  • Māori: tāke moniwhiwhi — tax levied on income
  • Navajo: naanish béeso nahalyéhé bihidiʼníłí — tax levied on income
  • Navajo: tłʼízíkąʼ nitééh — tax levied on income
  • Norwegian Bokmål: inntektsskatt — tax levied on income
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: inntektsskatt — tax levied on income
  • Persian: مالیات (mâliyât) — tax levied on income
  • Polish: podatek dochodowy — tax levied on income
  • Portuguese: imposto de renda — tax levied on income
  • Romanian: impozit pe venit — tax levied on income
  • Russian: подохо́дный нало́г (podoxódnyj nalóg) — tax levied on income
  • Scottish Gaelic: cìs air teachd-a-steach — tax levied on income
  • Slovene: davek — tax levied on income
  • Slovene: dohodnina — tax levied on income
  • Spanish: impuesto sobre la renta — tax levied on income
  • Swahili: kodi ya mapato — tax levied on income
  • Swedish: inkomstskatt — tax levied on income
  • Tagalog: buwis sa kita — tax levied on income
  • Tagalog: buwis ng kita — tax levied on income
  • Tamil: வரி (vari) — tax levied on income
  • Telugu: ఆదాయపుపన్ను (ādāyapupannu) — tax levied on income
  • Thai: ภาษีรายได้ (paa-sĕe-rai-dai) — tax levied on income
  • Turkish: gelir vergisi — tax levied on income
  • Ukrainian: податок на доходи (podatok na doxody) — tax levied on income
  • Vietnamese: thuế thu nhập — tax levied on income
  • Welsh: treth incwm — tax levied on income
  • Yoruba: owó-orí — tax levied on income