TAXmoneycollectedfrom aparticulartax, which can only bespentfor oneparticularpurpose:Hypothecatedtaxesfromgamblingare often used tofunda "goodcause" such aseducationoreconomicdevelopment.(Definition ofhypothecated taxesfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhypothecated taxes
hypothecated taxesSince then, various other governments around the world have introduced similarhypothecatedtaxeson tobacco products.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Table 6 reports attitudes tohypothecatedtaxesand the amount that would be raised as a percentage of current spending on the service.From theCambridge English CorpusHe also throws in proposals for demogrants and (most unconvincingly, to my mind)hypothecatedtaxes.From theCambridge English CorpusAre we to accepthypothecatedtaxesfor specific purposes levied on a specific group of people?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0If we levy green taxes, that money must be put back into the environment and becomehypothecatedtaxes.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The history ofhypothecatedtaxesis not a good one, however good the intentions behind them may have been.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Could we have morehypothecatedtaxesthat the public can see are linked to environmental improvement?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/hypothecated-taxes##
