sales tax

noun

A local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer and collected by the seller for the local or state authorities.

“They had to pay sales tax on a car they bought out of state.”

Similar
nuisance tax
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Meanings

nounsales tax (countable and uncountable, plural sales taxes)

plural sales taxes

  1. countableuncountableA local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer and collected by the seller for the local or state authorities.
  2. countableuncountableA use tax or a combination of a sales tax and a use tax.

    They had to pay sales tax on a car they bought out of state.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer

Similar
nuisance tax
Broader
exciseexcise tax
Also see
nuisance tax

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 營業稅 /营业税
  • 營業稅 /营业税 (yíngyèshuì)tax
Finnish liikevaihtovero
  • liikevaihtoverotax
French taxe de vente, taxe sur la vente
  • taxe de ventetax
  • taxe sur la ventetax
Hawaiian ʻauhau kumukūʻai
  • ʻauhau kumukūʻaitax
Icelandic söluskattur
  • söluskatturtax
Cite this entry
APA

sales tax. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sales%20tax

MLA

“sales tax.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sales%20tax. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sales tax,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sales%20tax.

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