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

• 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。
• 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。
• The crowd chanted 'No Poll Tax', a reference to the government's new local taxation system
  人群高呼“不要人头税”，指的是政府新确立的地方税收制度。
• The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
  市政税在明年4月将取代人头税。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most people agreed that the poll tax was fundamentally unjust.
  大多数人认为人头税根本不合理。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。