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tax revenue

UK/tæks ˈrevənjuː/US/tæks ˈrevəˌnuː/TAX REV·e·nue

Band 4-5task2speaking

The total money a government collects from taxes.

Examples

Last year tax revenue fell because economic growth slowed.

The government needs to broaden the tax base to increase tax revenue.

High tax revenue allows more spending on public services.

Band 8 sentence

If policymakers want to expand public spending without increasing rates, they must broaden the tax base to boost overall tax revenue.

Collocations

  • increase tax revenue
  • generate tax revenue
  • fall in tax revenue

Word family

tax noun / verbrevenue nountaxable adjective

Common mistakes

taxes revenuetax revenue

revenue of taxtax revenue

Say it for a higher band

5taxes revenue6tax income7+tax revenue

Synonyms

tax income

Easily confused

tax rate

A higher tax rate does not always lead to higher tax revenue.

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