Confiscatory meaning

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Being or imposing an excessive or unreasonable tax or cost.

Confiscatory taxes; a confiscatory police.

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Relating to or effecting confiscation.
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Of, effecting, or virtually amounting to confiscation.

A confiscatory tax.

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Confiscatory Sentence Examples

  • Confiscatory tax rates also never work.

  • confiscatory taxes on high incomes.

  • 1854), nevertheless urged the state courts and attorneys to proceed with the prosecution of other ticket agents, and threatened to resist with the force of the state any further interference of Federal judiciary; but in March 1908 the Supreme Court of the United States declared the North Carolina rate law unconstitutional on the ground that it was confiscatory.

  • A second method of radical redistribution is to increase marginal tax rates to a point that is confiscatory.

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