"sales tax" meaning in English

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      "form": "sales taxes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Taxation",
          "orig": "en:Taxation",
          "parents": [
            "Government",
            "Law",
            "Money",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Justice",
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      "glosses": [
        "A local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer. The tax is not recognized as the seller's earnings; the seller only collects the tax and transmits the same to local or state authorities."
      ],
      "id": "en-sales_tax-en-noun-l7czbq0I",
      "links": [
        [
          "local",
          "local"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "tax",
          "tax"
        ],
        [
          "percentage",
          "percentage"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "alt": "VAT",
          "word": "value-added tax"
        },
        {
          "alt": "GST",
          "word": "goods and services tax"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nuisance tax"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "營業稅"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yíngyèshuì",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "营业税"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "liikevaihtovero"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "taxe de vente"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "taxe sur la vente"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gaq̇idvebis gadasaxadi",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "გაყიდვების გადასახადი"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "realizaciis gadasaxadi",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "რეალიზაციის გადასახადი"
        },
        {
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "tax",
          "word": "ʻauhau kumukūʻai"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "tax",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "söluskattur"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sales tax"
}

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      "form": "sales taxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "sales tax (countable and uncountable, plural sales taxes)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "alt": "VAT",
      "word": "value-added tax"
    },
    {
      "alt": "GST",
      "word": "goods and services tax"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "A local or state tax imposed as a percentage of the selling price of goods or services payable by the customer. The tax is not recognized as the seller's earnings; the seller only collects the tax and transmits the same to local or state authorities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "local",
          "local"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "tax",
          "tax"
        ],
        [
          "percentage",
          "percentage"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nuisance tax"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "營業稅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yíngyèshuì",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "营业税"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "liikevaihtovero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "taxe de vente"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "taxe sur la vente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaq̇idvebis gadasaxadi",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "გაყიდვების გადასახადი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "realizaciis gadasaxadi",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "რეალიზაციის გადასახადი"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "tax",
      "word": "ʻauhau kumukūʻai"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "tax",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "söluskattur"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sales tax"
}