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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surtax
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Early polls showed a majority of Californians favored the surtax.
▪ Until 1969, interest on bank loans as well as on mortgages was eligible for income tax and surtax relief.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surtax

Surtax \Sur"tax\, n. An additional or extra tax.

Surtax

Surtax \Sur*tax"\, v. t. To impose an additional tax on.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surtax

"extra tax," 1834, from French surtaxe, from Old French sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + taxe "tax" (see tax (n.)).

Wiktionary
surtax

n. (context legal English) An additional or extra tax.

WordNet
surtax
  1. n. an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed [syn: supertax]

  2. v. levy an extra tax on; "surtax luxury items that cost more than $1,000"

Wikipedia
Surtax

A surtax may be a tax levied upon a tax, or a tax levied upon income.

Usage examples of "surtax".

Let us wherefore, tearing ages, presently preposterose a snatchvote of thanksalot to the huskiest coaxing experimenter that ever gave his best hand into chancerisk, wishing him with his famblings no end of slow poison and a mighty broad venue for themselves between the devil's punchbowl and the deep angleseaboard, that they may gratefully turn a deaf ear clooshed upon the desperanto of willynully, their shareholders from Taaffe to Auliffe, that will curse them below par and mar with their descendants, shame, humbug ant profit, to greenmould upon mildew over jaundice as long as ever there's wagtail surtaxed to a testcase on enver a man.

The only truly high taxes are the surtaxes, and yet they complain and complain.