head tax
Noun
Meaning
head tax (plural head taxes)
A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax.
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Examples
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Communities such as Juneau will get cruise ship head tax dollars that were effectively statutorily promised or guaranteed to them.