List of taxes

This page, a companion page to tax, lists different taxes by economic design. For different taxes by country, see Tax rates around the world.

Taxes generally fall into the following broad categories:

• Income tax
• Payroll tax
• Property tax
• Consumption tax
• Tariff (taxes on international trade)
• Capitation, a fixed tax charged per person
• Fees and tolls
• Effective taxes, government policies that are not explicitly taxes, but result in income to the government through losses to the public