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excise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excise \Ex*cise"\, v. t. [See Excide.] To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
Excise \Ex*cise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excised; p. pr. & vb. n. Excising.]
To lay or impose an excise upon.
To impose upon; to overcharge. [Prov. Eng.]
Excise \Ex*cise"\, n. [Apparently fr. L. excisum cut off, fr. excidere to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia, assize. See Assize, Concise.]
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In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States.
--Abbot.An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities.
--11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts. That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tax on goods," late 15c., from Middle Dutch excijs (early 15c.), apparently altered from accijs "tax" (by influence of Latin excisus "cut out or removed," see excise (v.)), traditionally from Old French acceis "tax, assessment" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + census "tax, census" (see census). English got the word, and the idea for the tax, from Holland.
"cut out," 1570s, from Middle French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excidere "cut out, cut down, cut off," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -cidere, comb. form of caedere "to cut down" (see -cide). Related: Excised; excising.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). n. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). vb. To impose an excise tax on something. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To cut out; to remove. 2 (context rare English) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
WordNet
n. a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) [syn: excise tax]
Wikipedia
[[file:Lincoln Beer Stamp 1871.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|1871 U.S. Revenue stamp for 1/6 barrel of beer
Brewers would receive the stamps in sheets, cut them into individual stamps, cancel them, and paste them over the bung of the beer barrel so when the barrel was tapped it would destroy the stamp.]]
An' excise' or excise tax (sometimes called a special excise duty) is an inland tax on the sale, or production for sale, of specific goods or a tax on a good produced for sale, or sold, within a country or licenses for specific activities. Excises are distinguished from customs duties, which are taxes on importation. Excises are inland taxes, whereas customs duties are border taxes.
An excise is considered an indirect tax, meaning that the producer or seller who pays the tax to the government is expected to try to recover or shift the tax by raising the price paid by the buyer. Excises are typically imposed in addition to another indirect tax such as a sales tax or value added tax (VAT). In common terminology (but not necessarily in law), an excise is distinguished from a sales tax or VAT in three ways:
- an excise typically applies to a narrower range of products;
- an excise is typically heavier, accounting for a higher fraction of the retail price of the targeted products; and
- an excise is typically a per unit tax, costing a specific amount for a volume or unit of the item purchased, whereas a sales tax or VAT is an ad valorem tax and proportional to the price of the good.
Typical examples of excise duties are taxes on gasoline and other fuels, and taxes on tobacco and alcohol (sometimes referred to as sin tax).
Usage examples of "excise".
The giving of a bond for exportation of distilled liquor is not the commencement of exportation so as to exempt from an excise tax spirits which were not exported pursuant to such bond.
We deduce from the composition of the letter that it is extorsive in nature, and we noticed, of course, that a portion of the letter, probably including the extortion, has been excised.
They helped feed and clothe the castoffs, undesirables, and petty criminals excised from Kundalan society, who lived high in the icebound reaches of the Djenn Marre under crushing physical conditions.
Chloroform was administered to excise a portion of the necrosed bone and death ensued.
The only part of the report Wichman had excised was the man Lo Prek believed responsible for the conspiracy: Sten.
Murakami, fistful of bloody excised stacks, shrugging back at me like a mirror.
It also had its own quaestor, who was responsible for overseeing the unloading and onward shipment of the grain supply, and responsible too for the levying of all customs and excise duties.
After she was stabilized, unrecoverable tissue-in this case, a leg-was excised.
But even if the datastore contained no information on robots, Caliban had at least the resonances in the datastore, the remnant hints left behind by whoever had assembled the datastore and then excised the robot data.
In a case of Sangster, reported by Politzer, although most of the dermoids, as usual, were like fibroma-nodules and therefore the color of normal skin, those over the mastoid processes and clavicle were lemon-yellow, and were generally thought to be xanthoma until they were excised, and Politzer found they were typical dermoid cysts with the usual contents of degenerated epithelium and hair.
Assisting at his first coronary bypass, helping to clamp off and excise the saphenous vein from the meat-thick thigh and substitute it for the fouled canal-locks around the heart, Kraft felt only the placid terror of arrival.
Under subsequent legislation, an excise is levied on interstate carriers and their employees, while by separate but parallel legislation a fund is created in the Treasury out of which pensions are paid along the lines of the original plan.
Until new texts could be introduced, students were required to go through their schoolbooks with the guidance of their teachers and systematically excise with brush and ink all passages deemed to be militaristic, nationalistic, or in some manner undemocratic.
Indian lands was subject to nondiscriminatory gross production and excise taxes, so long as Congress did not affirmatively grant them immunity.
For it is somewhat singular, that, in every age, the best and wisest of the Roman governors persevered in this pernicious method of collecting the principal branches at least of the excise and customs.