income tax

tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) that varies with respective income or profits (taxable income)
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Summary

income tax is a type of tax[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of type of tax entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,135 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: direct tax[3]
  • Commons category: Personal income taxes[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Income taxes[5]
  • Criterion used: income[6]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[8], The New Student's Reference Work[9]
  • Main Wikidata property: P2834[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11]

Why It Matters

income tax has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → gyventoju-pajamu-mokestis
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0217803-dane-z-prijmu
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