sumptuary tax
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sumptuary tax
noun sumptuary taxes
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A government levy on goods considered to be socially undesirable goods or nonessential luxuries, most commonly alcohol and tobacco.
The author seems favourable to a tax on dress, when, exceeding the limits of necessity and decency, it luxuriates in finery and ornament. A tax which should fall only on the superfluous embellishments, and costliness, of apparel would be a sumptuary tax, and might form a new source of supply to the
Similar: sin tax
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