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capitation tax
noun as in poll tax
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Public schools were initially supported by a Literary Fund and by one-half the capitation tax.
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Almost at the outbreak of the Civil War it also gave the king a graduated capitation tax.
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Akin to the tax that has just been described, at least in its nature as a direct impost, is the poll or capitation tax.
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Revenue is raised principally from customs and a capitation tax, which has replaced a hut tax.
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Rayah, r′ya, n. a non-Mohammedan subject of Turkey who pays the capitation tax.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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