personal tax

Citizen's income duty

Personal tax is tax levied on individuals rather than businesses or corporations.

The term encompasses income tax, capital gains tax, and other taxes assessed on a person's earnings, investments, or assets: She hired an accountant to handle her personal taxes.

Distinguished from corporate tax, sales tax, or property tax in financial and legal contexts.

Opposites
taxpayer entity type

personal taxcorporate tax

Levy on company profits

business tax · corporate taxation · payroll tax

tax incidence directness

personal taxindirect tax

Levy passed to consumers

sales tax · consumption tax · value-added tax · VAT · excise tax

Family

personal, person, personally, personality, personalize, personalized, personalization, impersonal, persona

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