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What (who) is overtax - definition
overtax
(overtaxes, overtaxing, overtaxed)
1.
If you overtax someone or something, you force them to work harder than they can really manage, and may do them harm as a result.
...a contralto who has overtaxed her voice.
VERB: V n
2.
If you say that a government is overtaxing its people, you mean that it is making them pay more tax than you think they should pay.
You can't help Britain by overtaxing its people.
VERB: V n
Overtax
·vt To tax or to task too heavily.
overtax
¦ verb
1. make excessive demands on (a person's strength, abilities, etc.).
2. require to pay excessive tax.
Derivatives
overtaxation noun
Examples of use of overtax
1. But the huge crowds overtax the ability of police and security services to protect them.
2. The only outstanding quality Gordon Brown has is his ability to make the wrong decisions and his ability to overtax and wastefully mis–spend.
3. Pentagon officials insisted the duty would not overtax the guard or interfere with preparations for combat, but some in Congress worried it would stretch the Guard too thin.
4. The president finally acknowledged the unsustainable social and economic burdens of permitting millions of illegal aliens to forge documents, pressure our public schools and hospitals and overtax our local and state budgets.
5. "I don‘t believe that this particular mission _ 6,000 or so National Guardsmen out of a force of 440,000 _ should overtax us." Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense, said Guard members assigned would be given tasks "directly related to their military skills." Others questioned the whole idea.