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

• 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 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。
• The poll tax, a tax of the same amount from each person, made the masses suffer untold misery and hardship.
  这种按人头征收的人头税，使得老百姓苦不堪言。
• The content of taxation in Qing Dynasty consisted in basically poll tax and tax of grain on land.
  丁银和地粮是清代赋税的基本内容。
• Namely, "single whip system" and "poll tax" reform, the system reform, causes the common people to obtain the more personal freedom, was engaged in the commercial operation for them to provide the system safeguard.
  赋役制度改革，使普通百姓获得更多人身自由，为他们从事商业运营提供了制度保障。
• 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。
• 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 council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
  市政税在明年4月将取代人头税。
• 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。
• 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。