{
  "id": "tax.economic",
  "term": "tax",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "tax",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a required payment of money to government by law",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "government.administrative",
      "law.rule",
      "pay.economic",
      "payment.economic",
      "required.obligation"
    ],
    "interaction": "people must give money to government under rules established by law",
    "novel_properties": [
      "obligatory transfer of money",
      "enforced financial contribution",
      "state-authorized appropriation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service collected $4.0 trillion in individual income taxes.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The UK's Council Tax requires homeowners in London to pay annual fees to local boroughs for services like waste collection.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1525, the German Peasants' War erupted after villagers refused new feudal tax demands backed by legal edicts.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "law.rule",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "price.economic",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "tax",
    "taxed",
    "taxes",
    "taxing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "definition factually corrected from 'required pay of money' to 'required payment of money' and missing constitutive concepts added to components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tax.economic"
}