The act or practice of imposing taxes, Revenue gained from taxes, The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes on the subjects or citizens of a state or government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue required for public service by means of taxes; the system by which such a revenue is raised

Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather, An establishment that cares for unwanted or stray animals and tries to find owners for them, One who protects; a guardian; a defender, intransitive verb_ To invest (income) to protect it from taxation, To provide cover or protection for, To take shelter, transitive verb_ To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect, To screen or cover from notice; to disguise, To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively, verb_ invest (money) so that it is not taxable, provide shelter for

The act of assessing; appraisal, An amount assessed, as for taxation, the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

The act or an instance of appraising, An expert or official valuation, as for taxation, A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement

The actual fall of taxation upon a particular individual or piece of property, in distinction from its nominal or supposed distribution, The rate or ratio at which something occurs, the relative frequency of occurrence of something

(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation, (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as eg taxes) to which others or other things are subject, Free from a duty or obligation, noun_ One who is exempted from an obligation, duty, or liability, One who is exempted or freed from duty; one dispensed from or not subject to service, especially military or other obligatory public service, transitive verb_ Obsolete To set apart; isolate, To free from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject, verb_ grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to, grant exemption or release to

To calculate approximately (the amount, extent, magnitude, position, or value of something), To form an opinion about; evaluate, verb_ judge to be probable, noun_ the respect with which a person is held, an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth, a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)

An official, usually periodic enumeration of a population, often including the collection of related demographic information, In ancient Rome, a count of the citizens and an evaluation of their property for taxation purposes