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 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。
• The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
  市政税在明年4月将取代人头税。
• Third, a set of evolving tax system, including the poll tax, property tax, consumption tax, proprietary income, and other non-income tax system;
  第三，逐渐形成了一整套的赋税体系，包括人头税、财产税、消费税、专卖收入和其他非税收入在内的租税体系；
• The government never managed to sell the poll tax to the British electorate.
  英国政府从没有设法使选民接受人头税。
• Exempting from poll taxation was a kind of tax policy that prevailed only in middle period of Southern Song Dynasty, and levied tax on Buddhist monks and Taoist priests.
  免丁钱是一种创行于南宋绍兴中期的身丁税，课征对象为寺观僧道，仅盛行于南宋时期。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most people agreed that the poll tax was fundamentally unjust.
  大多数人认为人头税根本不合理。
• 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。