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tax liability

/tæks ˌlaɪəˈbɪləti/

B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law phrase

The total amount of tax that a person or company is legally obliged to pay for a given period.

After reliefs, the group's corporation tax liability for the year fell to under a million pounds.

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Business noun

The total amount of tax that a company or individual is legally obliged to pay to the authorities.

The capital allowances reduced our tax liability significantly this year.

Topic: Accounting in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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