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Apr 12, 2006

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Death and taxes

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publican
thanatopsis
impost
anabiosis
capitation

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impost

noun:
1. A tax or a similar mandatory payment.
2. The weight a horse must carry in a handicap race.
3. The top part of a pillar of a wall, usually projecting in the form of an ornamental molding, on which an arch rests.

[From Latin imponere (to impose), from ponere (to place).]

"The impost on business could be offset with a cut to the corporate tax rate."
Richard Inder; Sharemarket at Risk of Losing Biggest Firms; The New Zealand Herald (Auckland); Mar 9, 2006.

See more usage examples of impost in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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