| 词汇 | bedroom-tax |
| 释义 | bedroom tax noun[ S ] UKinformaluk /ˈbed.ruːm ˌtæks//ˈbed.rʊm ˌtæks/ us /ˈbed.ruːm ˌtæks//ˈbed.rʊm ˌtæks/ an informal name for a UK government policy introduced in 2012 that reduced the amount of housing benefit(= money to help poorer people pay their rent) paid to people living in houses that were considered to have more bedrooms than they needed（俗称）睡房税（英国政府2012年开始推行的紧缩政策，削减有空置睡房的社会福利房住户所享有的福利） Compare underoccupancy charge Taxation amortizable anti-dumping anti-progressive anti-tax at sourcephrase financial year fiscal drag fiscal year flat tax gas tax regressive regressively road tax sales tax self-assessment taxpayer the taxman tithe top rate unprogressive Examples of bedroom taxbedroom tax We have had the head tax, the floor tax, the skull tax, the bed-and-breakfast tax, the capital values tax and the bedroomtax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What about a bedroomtax, with people getting a do-it-yourself kit to knock down dividing walls? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This clause promotes the idea of a tourist or bedroomtax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can he tell us today: does he want the floor tax or the roof tax, the bed-and-breakfast tax or the bedroomtax, the capital value tax or the extension tax? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Detractors have widely referred to the penalty as a bedroomtax, while government advocates of the scheme have used the term spare room subsidy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Willott also came under sustained pressure from political opponents over her support for the bedroomtax. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Critics have referred to the policy as a bedroomtax whereas supporters of the change have referred to the unreformed system as a spare room subsidy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These 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. |
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