Illustration: At a village rice-tax collection storehouse, an official moves a wooden divider across a row of identical filled rice measures. The divider previously separated a smaller share beside the government’s receiving cart from the larger share beside a farming household.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

増ぞう税ぜい

zouzei

to raise taxes

Example sentences

大部分だいぶぶんの日本人にっぽんじんが増税ぞうぜいに反対はんたいした。
Most Japanese opposed a tax increase.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
増税ぞうぜいがわれわれの生活せいかつにかなりの影響えいきょうを及およぼした。
The tax increases affected our lives greatly.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
歳出さいしゅつを削減さくげんしないのであれば増税ぞうぜいはやむを得えない。
Tax increases are inevitable if we don’t reduce spending.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 増税

増increase; addOnゾウKunます・まし・ふえる
税tax; dutyOnゼイ

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