mistax

present singular third person mistaxes · participle present mistaxing · participle past mistaxed · past mistaxed

1. transitiveTo tax inappropriately.

   If a rare transaction is mistaxed, taxpayers have an incentive to find it and exploit it.

   2004, Henry Aaron, Joel Slemrod, The Crisis in Tax Administration, page 36

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   That citizens would not be unrepresented, mistaxed, overlorded, or involuntarily impressed into military service put the country in a New World indeed.

   2008, Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln: A History

   More generally, the policy concern that the use of carried interests enables labor income to be mistaxed as preferential capital gain would not seem to depend upon how long a particular investment is held.

   2020, George K. Yin, Karen C. Burke, Partnership Taxation, page 328