Noun
head tax (plural head taxes)
A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax.
Canute, however, was beginning to realise that the imposition of the tithe on Danish peasants and nobles to fund the expansion of monasteries and churches and a new head tax (Danish:nefgjald) had brought his people to the verge of rebellion. Source: Internet
On the ledger's other side, he was responsible for the CPR scandal, the execution of Louis Riel, and for the head tax on Chinese workers. Source: Internet
Shortly after the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act, Canada established the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 which imposed a head tax on Chinese migrants entering Canada. Source: Internet
In 2021, the tax would change from a head tax to a 0.7 percent payroll tax, which the estimates would cost Amazon $39 million a year, or slightly more than 1 percent of last year’s profit, assuming the company employs 50,000 people in Seattle by then. Source: Internet
Qing literati used the term "raw/wild" (Zh) to define those people who had not submitted to Qing rule, and "cooked; tamed or subjugated" (Zh) for those who had pledged their allegiance through their payment of a head tax. Source: Internet
Communities such as Juneau will get cruise ship head tax dollars that were effectively statutorily promised or guaranteed to them. Source: Internet