Fax vs. Tax

Faxnoun

The hair of the head.

Taxnoun

Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

Faxnoun

A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Taxnoun

A burdensome demand.

‘a heavy tax on time or health’;

Faxverb

To send a document via a fax machine.

Taxnoun

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

Faxnoun

duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

Taxnoun

(obsolete) charge; censure

Faxverb

send something via a facsimile machine;

‘Can you fax me the report right away?’;

Taxnoun

(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones.

Taxverb

(transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person).

‘Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.’;

Taxverb

(transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).

‘Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.’;

Taxverb

(transitive) To make excessive demands on.

Taxnoun

A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

Taxnoun

A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

‘A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious.’;

Taxnoun

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

Taxnoun

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.

Taxnoun

A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

Taxnoun

A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

Taxnoun

Charge; censure.

Taxnoun

A lesson to be learned; a task.

Taxverb

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.

‘We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.’;

Taxverb

To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

Taxverb

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.

‘I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.’; ‘Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.’; ‘Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.’;

Taxnoun

charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

Taxverb

levy a tax on;

‘The State taxes alcohol heavily’; ‘Clothing is not taxed in our state’;

Taxverb

set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Taxverb

use to the limit;

‘you are taxing my patience’;

Taxverb

make a charge against or accuse;

‘They taxed him failure to appear in court’;

Taxnoun

a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions

‘a tax bill’; ‘higher taxes will dampen consumer spending’; ‘a tax on fuel’; ‘tax cuts’; ‘they will have to pay tax on interest earned by savings’;

Taxnoun

a strain or heavy demand

‘a heavy tax on the reader's attention’;

Taxverb

impose a tax on (someone or something)

‘the income will be taxed at the top rate’;

Taxverb

pay tax on (something, especially a vehicle)

‘the Land Rover slowly disintegrates and no one has bothered to tax it’;

Taxverb

make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources)

‘she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength’;

Taxverb

confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing

‘why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?’;

Taxverb

examine and assess (the costs of a case)

‘an officer taxing a bill of costs’;

Tax

A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures. A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law.