poll tax

英 [ˈpəʊl tæks]

美 [ˈpoʊl tæks]

n.  人头税

Collins.2

牛津词典

noun

• 人头税
  a tax that must be paid at the same rate by every person or every adult in a particular area

英英释义

noun

• a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

双语例句

• The imposition of a poll tax on voters
  对选举人人头税的课征
• My friends in New York, for example, were completely nonplussed by the poll tax references.
  比如，对于电影里提到的人头税，我在纽约的朋友们就感到一头雾水。
• The stone crushed the head of a poet. the imposition of a poll tax on voters
  石头砸在一个诗人头上。对选举人人头税的课征
• The opinion poll will take the pulse ofthe nation to find out whether people will accept the new tax.
  这次民意测验将探测全国的意向，看人民是否会接受新税。
• Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
  大臣们认为在大选前停止征收人头税至关重要。
• We already have files on people's tax details, mortgages and poll tax
  我们已经建立了人们纳税详情、抵押贷款以及人头税的档案。
• The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
  市政税在明年4月将取代人头税。
• Most people agreed that the poll tax was fundamentally unjust.
  大多数人认为人头税根本不合理。
• At the same time as they cut income tax and public spending, the first Thatcher administration hiked the sales tax, VAT – a flat-rate tax far more remorselessly regressive than the poll tax.
  在他们削减个人所得税和公共开支的同时，撒切尔的第一届政府拉高了销售税，即VAT税&一种单一税制，无情地倒退到比人头税更恶劣的程度。
• One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
  撒切尔夫人蝉联后的首批政策之一是实施人头税，这是一种为本地服务征收的单一税。该税种基于个人，而非民众居住的房产的价值。