Clues for the word "TAX"
We've had 235 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 470 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on May 23, 2026.
Definition of tax
- n. - A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
- n. - A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
- n. - Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
- n. - A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
- n. - A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
- n. - A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
- n. - Charge; censure.
- n. - A lesson to be learned; a task.
- n. - To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
- n. - To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
- n. - To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Referring Clues
- Levy
- Burden
- Pay cut
- I.R.S.'s share
- Excise
- Push to the limit
- Press hard on
- Duty
- Put a strain on
- Word with withholding
- Cash register calculation
- Common add-on
- Purchase price addition
- What an assessor assesses
- Try
- Line on a cash register receipt
- Custom
- Price add-on
- Take a toll on
- Tariff
- Weigh down
- Kind of shelter
- Strain
- See 18-Across
- Good thing to be sheltered from
- Cigarettes have it
- Line on a receipt
- Invoice add-on
- April payment
- Bill add-on
- Word with sin or luxury
- Tribute to Uncle Sam
- Part of the cost of doing business
- Uncle Sam's take
- IRS concern
- Bill addition
- Word on two Monopoly squares
- Assess
- Municipal levy
- It may pay for road repairs
- What Lady Godiva protested
- Lottery winner's obligation
- Restaurant bill add-on
- Paycheck deduction
- Make demands on
- It's based on purchase price
- Cost increaser
- Word with cut and rate
- It might be flat
- Heavy demand
- Luxury ___ (space between Boardwalk and Park Place)
- With 58-Down, accountant's concern
- Overburden
- It's often above the final total
- Payroll deduction
- Income outgo
- Revenue source
- Receipt line
- Receipt figure
- What Matthew collected
- Word on two "Monopoly" squares
- Uncle Sam's cut
- Sale add-on, perhaps
- Part of the tab, often
- Word with luxury or sales
- Word with state or sales
- Mid-April payment
- Penultimate line on most bills
- Something levied
- With 6-Down, one in fear of an audit
- Word after sales or income
- Store charge, often
- See 1-Down, and word that can precede both parts of the answers to starred clues
- Boston Tea Party issue
- Kind of shelter or table
- It's your duty?
- Word that may follow either word in 17-, 20-, 37-, 53-, and 58-Across
- Tea partier's rallying point
- State add-on
- Impost
- Challenge
- Government demand
- April 15 payment
- Tribute to the government
- IRS' share
- Price part
- Price addition
- Receipt addition
- Price percentage
- Economists' subject
- Wage earner's burden
- Earner's burden
- A big imposition
- Wage earner's woe
- Campaign promise topic
- 'Monopoly payment'
- Worker's burden
- Price booster
- Word with "luxury" or "excise"
- Tarrif
- Income ___
- Bill line
- Wage earner's payment
- Test to the max
- Surcharge
- What nobody likes to pay
- Component of some bills
- Area of expertise for a CPA
- 61 Down calculation
- Prove burdensome to
- Big estate concern
- April 15 outflow
- Income bite
- Part of the tab
- State revenue source
- Purchase add-on
- IRS payment
- April 15 demand
- Make serious demands on
- ___ shelter
- Word on sales slips
- Nice thing about purchases in Delaware and Oregon
- See 65-Down
- Stress
- Return concern
- I.R.S. money
- Subject for Grover Norquist
- Overexert
- It may be value-added
- IRS money
- It's an imposition
- Sap or stress
- Repair bill component
- It prompted the Boston Tea Party
- Retailer's collection
- Word after income, sales or excise
- Weigh heavily on
- Income follower
- Government levy
- Sale add-on
- Bill surcharge
- Bill word
- April payment to Uncle Sam
- State or federal payment
- April payment to the IRS
- Sales add-on
- Type of payment to the IRS
- Purchase price add-on
- Retail purchase add-on
- Charge across at the end of the street!
- Levy that makes part-time soldiers cross
- Volunteers a kiss by way of payment!
- Thanks to getting cross, one has to pay it
- Volunteers a figure as a cash contribution
- Thanks for the kiss, but what about some money?
- Is value added to it?
- Strain - duty
- Subject of Box 2 on a Form W-2
- Make heavy demands on
- Price additive
- 39-Across collection
- Citizen's duty
- The burden on part of the front axle
- Money deducted from a paycheck
- Money that's sent to the government
- Subject to strain
- A tribute to the way things are run?
- Capital gains ___
- Income or sales follower
- Some people pay it quarterly
- Fee paid to the IRS
- Payment to Internal Revenue
- Repair bill part
- Thanks for the kiss, but it's money that's wanted
- Carbon ___
- Sales receipt figure
- Gas ___
- Sales slip figure
- Impose a tariff
- Amount calculated as a percent
- Line on many a receipt
- Thanks for the kiss, but there's still something to pay
- Withholding ___
- Restaurant bill component
- Return payment
- Put pressure on
- What the Inland Revenue volunteers to figure for you
- Luxury ___ (Monopoly space)
- Government income
- VAT, for one
- Word before base or shelter
- Payment to the IRS
- It's paid back with some vexation
- ___ Day (April 15th, typically)
- Volunteers a kiss as tribute
- Bite of your bacon
- Payment due in mid-April
- ___ bracket
- ___ evasion
- Line on a bill just above the total
- What you can pay for tacks, we're told
- Checkout calculation
- Volunteers a kiss as payment!
- Word before "shelter" or "haven"
- Figure on a receipt
- Add-on on a sales slip
- Government guarantee?
- Payment to the government
- Subject of two squares on a Monopoly board
- Figure on a sales slip
- Word before "break" or "return"
- Such inspectors aren't exactly lax
- Burden that makes us at some stage cross!
- Receipt line just above the total
- Assessment
- Sales ___
- Collectors' item?
- Amount added to a purchase price
- Word before "bracket" or "break"
- Line on many bills
- Thing added to the retail price
- Line on a sales receipt
- Dodgers might not pay it
- Something a state adds on to a sale
- Civic duty, of a sort
- Thanks for the kiss, but it'll still cost you!
- Thanks to getting cross, one may have to pay it
- Thanks for the kiss, but what about some money?
- Is value added to it?
- IRS collection
- Line near the bottom of a receipt
- What you may have to pay, thanks to getting cross
- Tariff, e.g.
- Put a burden on
- It reduces one's income
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - May 23, 2026
- New York Times - May 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 03, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 03, 2025
- LA Times - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2025
- LA Times - September 26, 2025
- LA Times - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 20, 2025
- New York Times - July 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 08, 2025
- LA Times - April 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2025
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