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Taurine Taurine or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid is an organic acid that is abundant in the tissues of many animals (metazoa), especially sea animals. Taurine is also found in plants, fungi, and some bacterial species, but at lower levels.
Tauro F.C. Tauro FC is a professional soccer club located in Panama City, Panama that plays in ANAPROF, the top Panamanian soccer league. Tauro FC have won 6 ANAPROF Championships since 1989, the highest total of any team.
Taurobolium In ancient Rome, taurobolium referred to the sacrifice of a bull, usually in connection with the worship of the Great Mother of the Gods, though not limited to this. Of oriental origin, its first known performance in Italy occurred in 134 AD, at Puteoli, in honor of Venus Caelestis.
Taurocholic acid Taurocholic acid, known also as cholaic acid, cholyltaurine, or acidum cholatauricum, is a deliquescent yellowish crystalline bile acid involved in the emulsification of fats. It occurs as a sodium salt in the bile of mammals.
Tauromachy Tauromachy (tauromachia the "fighting of a bull)" is a name for the cultural ritual of Bullfighting and also for the iconic central action of Mithras, the savior-god of Mithraism. It is also another term for bullfighting, as found in Hispanic culture.
Tauros are one of the 386 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Tauros in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Taurpis Tula Taurpis Tula is a Scottish band whose current members include journalist David Keenan, as well as Heather Leigh Murray and Alex Neilson. Percussionist Neilson's first recording with the band, which had played primarily as a duo since its inception in 2003, was the Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies CDR on the Chocolate Monk label.
Taurus (astrology) Taurus is an astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation of the same name. Under the tropical zodiac, Taurus is occupied by the Sun from April 20 to May 20, and under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from May 14 to June 19.
Taurus (constellation) Taurus (IPA: , , symbol , ) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It sits large and prominent in the winter sky, between Aries to the west and Gemini to the east; to the north lie Perseus and Auriga, to the southeast Orion, and to the southwest Eridanus and Cetus.
Taurus (manufacturer) Forjas Taurus S/A (Taurus Forge) is a manufacturing conglomerate based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Beginning as a tool and die manufacturer, the company now consists of divisions focusing on firearms, metals manufacturing, plastics, body armor, helmets, and civil construction.
Taurus Bulba Taurus Bulba is a fictional character created for the animated television series Darkwing Duck. He is a villain who was featured predominantly in the two-part pilot episode Darkly Dawns the Duck and later reappeared in Steerminator.
Taurus missile TAURUS KEPD 350 Target Adaptive Unitary and Dispenser Robotic Ubiquity System / Kinetic Energy Penetrator and Destroyer is a German/Swedish air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by TAURUS System GmbH (TSG) and used by Germany and Spain.
Taurus Mountains The Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları, also known as Ala-Dagh or Bulghar-Dagh) are a mountain range in the southeastern Anatolian plateau, from which the Euphrates (Turkish: Fırat) descends into Syria.
Taurus Rising Taurus Rising is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1982. Originally intended by the network to be a replacement for The Sullivans, the series was one of a number of attempts to provide an Australian alternative to the glossy American supersoaps Dallas and Dynasty and featured two wealthy Sydney-based feuding families, the Brents and the Drysdales.
Taut foliation In mathematics, a taut foliation is a codimension 1 foliation of a 3-manifold with the property that every leaf has a transverse circle intersecting it. By transverse circle, it is meant a closed loop that is always transverse to the tangent field of the foliation.
Tautas Padome Tautas Padome (Latvia's People's Council) was a temporary council which declared Latvia's independence in 1918 and then acted as a temporary parliament until a Constitutional Assembly (Satversmes Sapulce) was elected.
Tautoga The tautoga (IPA pronunciation: /tɔʊtɔŋɑ/) is considered the most formal and restrained style of Rotuman dance, usually seen performed in large festivities or ceremonies (called kato'aga, a term summing up all traditional Rotuman ceremonies), or in public opportunities to showcase Rotuman culture. The tautoga style can be seen as comparable to the Tongan lakalaka, and the "toga" (tɔŋɑ) sound to the word alludes to such an origin.
Tautochrone curve A tautochrone or isochrone curve is the curve for which the time taken by a frictionless particle sliding down it under uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point. The curve is a cycloid, and the time is equal to π times the square root of the radius over the acceleration of gravity.
Tautological bundle In mathematics, tautological bundle is a term for a particularly natural vector bundle occurring over a Grassmannian, and more specially over projective space. Canonical bundle as a name dropped out of favour, on the grounds that 'canonical' is heavily overloaded as it is, in mathematical terminology, and (worse) confusion with the canonical class in algebraic geometry could scarcely be avoided.
Tautological one-form In mathematics, the tautological one-form is a special 1-form defined on the cotangent bundle T*Q of a manifold Q. The exterior derivative of this form defines a symplectic form giving T*Q the structure of a symplectic manifold.
Tautology (logic) In logic, a tautology is a statement containing more than one sub-statement, that is true regardless of the truth values of its parts. For example, the statement "Either all crows are black, or not all of them are", is a tautology, because it is true no matter what color crows are.
Tautomer Tautomers are organic compounds that are interconvertible by a chemical reaction called tautomerization. As most commonly encountered, this reaction results in the formal migration of a hydrogen atom or proton, accompanied by a switch of a single bond and adjacent double bond.
Tautonym A tautonym is a binomial scientific name in which the name of the genus and that of the species (referred to as the specific epithet in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the specific name in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) are identical.
Tautuku Peninsula The Tautuku Peninsula is a rocky headland on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 25 km (15 mi) east of Waikawa, at the western end of a bay (Tautuku Bay) in the area known as the Catlins.
Tautvilas Tautvilas or Tautvila (died in 1263) was Duke of Polatsk and one of the sons of Dausprungas and nephews of King of Lithuania Mindaugas. Tautvilas together with his brother Edivydas and uncle Vykintas waged a civil war against Mindaugas.
Tav (number) In his work on set theory, Georg Cantor denoted the collection of all cardinal numbers by the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, (transliterated as Taf, Tav, or Taw.) As Cantor realized, this collection could not itself have a cardinality, as this would lead to a paradox of the Burali-Forti type.
Tav Falco Tav Falco is an American-born musical performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns (named after a plantation in Mississippi) since 1979.
Tav Falco's Panther Burns Tav Falco's Panther Burns, sometimes shortened to "(The) Panther Burns", is an errant musical troupe performing stripped-down, often primitive rock and roll and other styles, originally from Memphis led by Tav Falco. They are best known for having been part of a set of bands emerging in the late 1970s and early 1980s who helped nationally popularize the blending of blues, country, and other American traditional music styles with rock music among groups playing in alternative music and punk music venues of the time.
Tava A tava, also known as tawah, is a large, flat or slightly concave disc-shaped griddle made from cast iron, steel or aluminium. It is used in Indian cuisine to prepare several kinds of roti or Indian breads including chapati, paratha, chaap, pao bhaaji, chaat, etc.
Tava Smiley Tava Smiley, born in Theodosia, Missouri in 1971, is an American actress and television host. She has made appearances on numerous television programs, but her most notable roles to date have included a role on General Hospital, hosting Clean Sweep, and acting as a correspondent for Wild Chicago and Extra.
Tavanur Tavanur is a small village on the southern bank of Bharathapuzha, the longest river of Kerala in the Malappuram District of Kerala state in India. Tavanur village lies 8 kilometres west of Kuttippuram Railway Station and 12 kilometres north of Ponnani.
Tavastia (constituency) Tavastia (formerly Tavastia South) is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative regions of Tavastia Proper and Päijänne Tavastia, with a combined population of about 364,000 (as of 2002).
Taveirosaurus Taveirosaurus (tah-VAY-roo-SAWR-us - Taveiro + (Greek sauros meaning "lizard") was a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur named after Taveiro, a village in Portugal, near where the fossil was found. It was discovered by elles Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell in 1991.
Tavern A tavern is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licenced to put up guests. The word derives from the Latin taberna and the Greek ταβέρνα/taverna, whose original meaning was a shed or workshop.
Taverna Taverna refers to a small restaurant serving Greek cuisine, not to be confused with "tavern". The Greek word is ταβέρνα and is originally derived from the Latin word taberna ('shed' or 'hut', from tabula 'board', possibly by dissimilation from traberna, from trabs: beam, timber).
Taverna workbench The Taverna workbench is an open source software tool for designing and executing bioinformatics workflows created by the myGrid project. Taverna allows users to integrate many different software tools, including web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, The European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.
Tavernello Tavernello is the trade name for a low alcohol content (11-13% ABV) IGT Italian table wine that is widely advertised as Italy's #1 Wine and commercially sold in Italy and internationally by the wine cooperative Caviro. It is noted for being the first wine produced in Italy which was sold in a Tetra Pak container and also for its low price (under 3 Euros as of December 2006).
Taverner (opera) Taverner is an opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies, based on a story about the life of the 16th century English composer John Taverner which is now known to be spurious. It was first performed at Covent Garden, London on 12 July 1972.
Taverner Consort and Players Taverner Consort and Players is a period instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber choir, founded and directed by Andrew Parrott. Founded in the 1970s,This page originally indicated a foundation date of 1978, but this conflicts with other sources - see discussion.
Taverner's Bible Taverner's Bible, more correctly called The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, is a minor revision of Matthew's Bible edited by Richard Taverner and published in 1539. First editions of Taverner's Bible are extremely rare.
Taverners F.C. Taverners Football Club was formed in 1971 under the name of George Taverners, a name derived from their roots at the George Hotel Nailsworth. The early years were spent lounging in the lower divisions of the Stroud League, with little success apart from one brief excursion into Division Three.
Tavernes de Valldigna Tavernes de Valldigna is a city in Spain, located in the district of Safor, 54 km far away from Valencia. Tavernes de Valldigna is the biggest town in La Valldigna, a horseshoe shape valley bordered by mountains (Iberic and Betic mountains) on the West an the Mediterranean Sea to the East.
Tavernier Blue The Tavernier Blue was the precursor diamond to the Blue Diamond of the Crown (aka the French Blue), and subsequently the Hope Diamond. This had been accepted by many historians and gemologists for years and was scientifically proven with 3D imaging and prototyping technology in 2005.
Taveuni Taveuni (IPA: []) is the third-largest island in Fiji, after Vanua Levu and Viti Levu, with a total land area of 435 square kilometers. It had a population of around 9,000, some 75 percent of them indigenous Fijians, at the 1996 census.
Taveuni beetle The Taveuni beetle (Xixuthrus terribilis)) is known from the island of Taveuni in Fiji, and is one of the largest living insect species, with specimens around 14 cm long, excluding legs, antennae, or jaws. It is closely related to the giant Fijian long-horned beetle.
Tavche Gravche Tavche Gravche (Macedonian language Тавче гравче ; beans in a skillet) is traditional Macedonian dish. It involves boiling the beans first and then mixed with onion, peppers, tomato, oil, flour and various spices baked in a pottery saucepan.
Tavin Marin Titus Tavin Marin Titus is a young film producer who has worked on a projects of a diverse budget range from blockbusters The Day After Tomorrow, ID4 and Godzilla to her more recent workproducing three Sci Fi Channel Original Movies including: Alien Lockdown, The Man With No Eyes, and Mammoth.
Tavington, William Colonel William Tavington (Jason Issacs) was raised in Liverpool, England, with his beautiful mother Annabelle Lee and his conniving, inheritance stealing, alocoholic father James Tavington. He ran away from his home at the tender age of ten and joined the navy as a deckhand.
Tavio Amorin Octave Tavio Tobias Ayao Amorin (born 20 November 1958, Lomé – died 29 July 1992, Paris) was a Togolese socialist politician. He led the Pan-African Socialist Party, the ideology of which was influenced by the French Communist Party.
Tavis Stanley Tavis Stanley started touring at a young age. His guitar work and backing vocals were an asset to the Shannon Fayth band as they toured Western Canada opening for such acts as The Jeff Healey Band among others.
Tavistock Tavistock is a market town on the River Tavy, from which its name derives, and has a population of over 11,000. It traces its history back at least to AD 961, when Tavistock Abbey, whose ruins lie in the centre of the town, was founded.
Tavistock Clinic The Tavistock Clinic, named for its original location in Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, is a noted centre for mental health therapy in the British NHS. It offers outpatient clinical services in London and provides many postgraduate training and academic courses for the mental health and social care professions.
Tavistock Cup The Tavistock Cup is a team competition between the golf Touring Professionals of Isleworth Golf & Country Club and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club - located within 25 miles of one another in Orlando, Florida and owned by a private investment company, Tavistock Group. Hailed in the press as the "Toughest Ticket in Sports," the Tavistock Cup features some of the world's best players vying for team bragging rights to be crowned the World Golf and Country Club Champion.
Tavistock Institute The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was an outgrowth of the original parent body, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, commonly referred to then as the Tavistock Clinic, which was founded in 1920 in Tavistock Square in London.
Tavistock, New Jersey Tavistock is a Walsh Act borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 24, making it the third smallest municipality by population in New Jersey, with just six more residents than the 18 residing in Teterboro, in Bergen County and four more than the 20 in nearby Pine Valley.
Tavisupleba "Tavisupleba" (Georgian: თავისუფლება) is the current national anthem of Georgia. The anthem, whose title means "Freedom", was adopted in 2004, along with the new national flag and coat of arms.
Tavium Tavium, or Tavia, was the chief city of the Galatian tribe of Trocmi, one of the three Celtic tribes which migrated from the Danube Valley to Galatia in the 3rd century BCE. Owing to its position on the high roads of commerce was an important trading post.
Tavua Tavua is a town in Fiji, 91 kilometers from Nadi and 9 kilometers from the gold mining settlement of Vatukoula. It was formally incorporated as a Town in 1992, with a land area of 100 square kilometers, and had a population of 2,418 at the 1996 census, the last to date.
Tavua (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Tavua Indian Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Tavua (Open Constituency, Fiji) Tavua Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Taw Manroot The Taw Manroot, Marah watsonii, is an uncommon manroot of central northern California. Its range is bounded by the eastern coastal foothills, the western foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and Cascades ranges and from Lake Berryessa in the south to Lake Shasta in the north.
Tawa Flat deviation The Tawa Flat deviation is a double-track section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) just north of Wellington, New Zealand. It includes two tunnels, Tawa No 1 (1238 m) and Tawa No 2 (4323 m), separated by the Ngauranga Gorge.
Tawaf In Islamic context, Tawaf refers to the ritual of circumambulating the Ka'bah (the holiest building in Mecca) seven times during the pilgrimages of Hajj and Umrah. Muslims walk around the Ka'bah in a counter-clockwise direction three times at a hurried pace, followed by four times, more closely, at a leisurely pace.
Tawagalawa letter The Tawagalawa letter (CTH 181) was written by a Hittite king (generally accepted as Hattusili III) to a king of Ahhiyawa around 1250 BC. This letter, of which only the third tablet has been preserved, concerns the activities of an adventurer Piyama-Radu against the Hittites, and requests his extradition to Hatti under assurances of safe conduct.
Tawaif Historically, a tawaif was a courtesan who catered to the Muslim nobility of South Asia, particularly during the Mughal era. They were skilled singers (North Indian classical music), dancers (usually Kathak), and poets (Urdu poetry).
Tawainen Tawainen, more frequently known as the MissĂŁo TiriĂłs (TiriyĂł Mission) village, is an indigenous (TiriyĂł) village situated near the headwaters of the Western Paru river in Brazil, near the border with Suriname.
Tawanda Mupariwa Tawanda Mupariwa (born April 16, 1985 in Bulawayo) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right arm medium-fast seam bowler who was brought into the squad after the record low 35 all out in the third one-day international against Sri Lanka.
Tawang District Tawang district is located in north-western Arunachal Pradesh in India. The People's Republic of China claims sovereignty over the area as part of Cuona district in Shannan Prefecture (Tibet Autonomous Region), while India claims it as part of the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Tawang Town Tawang () is a small town situated at an elevation of approximately 3048 meters (10,000 feet) in the northwestern part of Arunachal Pradesh. The town once served as the district headquarters of West Kameng district, and became the district headquarters of Tawang district when it was formed from West Kameng.
Tawaret In Egyptian mythology, Tawaret (also spelt Taurt, Tuat, Taueret, Tuart, Ta-weret, Taweret, and Taueret, and in Greek, Thoeris and Toeris)her name in English is famously known as Manufiki. She was originally the demon-wife of Apep, the original god of evil.
Tawassul Tawassul (Arabic: توسل ) is an Islamic religious practice in which a prayer is offered to Allah through an intermediary.The Intermediary could be a good deed, a person (dead or alive) or an attribute of Allah.
Tawau Hills National Park Tawau Hills National Park was established in 1979, primarily as a protection for the water catchment area of Tawau town, in Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It is located 24 kilometers from Tawau, and comprises 279.
Tawes Theatre Tawes Theatre, located at College Park, Maryland, is the former home of the Department of Theatre and School of Music of the University of Maryland. It is the largest auditorium on the UM Campus, with a seating capacity of over 1,400.
Tawfik Abu al-Huda Tawfik Abu al-Huda (Arabic: توفيق ابو الهدى ) (also known as Tawfik Pasha Abul-Huda) (1894 - 1956) served as prime minister of Jordan from September 28, 1938 to October 15, 1944, from December 28, 1947 to April 12, 1950, from July 25, 1951 to May 5, 1953, and finally from May 4, 1954 to May 30, 1955. During his last term as Prime Minister, he tried to consolidate the power of King Hussein by holding parliamentary elections which many accused of being fraudulent.
Tawfiq bin Attash Tawfiq bin Attash (), also referred to as 'Khallad' (), was an Al Qaeda member first suspected of being a member of the network in August 1998, when investigators learned he had assigned Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali to bomb the U.S.
Tawni O'Dell Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, the last of which was an Oprah's Book Club pick (March 2000) and a Book of the Month Club Main Selection.
Tawny Frogmouth The Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, is an Australian variety of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. The Tawny Frogmouth is often thought to be a species of owl, but they are related to nightjars.
Tawny nurse shark The tawny nurse shark or giant sleepy shark, Nebrius ferrugineus, is a nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae, the only member of the genus Nebrius. It is found in the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans between latitudes 31° N and 24° S, and reaches a length of 3.
Tawny Owl (Farthing Wood) Tawny Owl is a fictional character in The Animals of Farthing Wood and its many sequals, written by Colin Dann. Tawny Owl (often referred to as just "Owl") also appeared in The Animals of Farthing Wood, an animated children's television series based upon the books.
Tawny Pipit The Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris, is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
Tawny-chested Flycatcher The Tawny-chested Flycatcher or Salvin's Flycatcher, Aphanotriccus capitalis, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in Caribbean lowlands and foothills up to 1000 m altitude from eastern Nicaragua to northern Costa Rica, although all Nicaraguan records are historical specimens collected near Lake Nicaragua or its outflow.
Tawrat Tawrat (Tawrah or Taurat, Arabic: توراة) is the Arabic translation of the Hebrew word Torah (also known as the "Five Books of Moses" or the "Pentateuch") which Muslims believe was a holy book of Islam given by Allah to Musa (Moses). Some theorize that the Tawrat may refer to the entire Tanach or Old Testament.
Tawse A tawse ' (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip) is a typically Scottish implement for physical punishment, called tawsing after it, that was often used for educational discipline instead of the English cane (which, like the horse crop, was however used in private schools, usually on bare bottoms or the hands).
Tawwakul Tawwakul is an Arabic language word for the Islamic concept of trusting in Allah's plan. Tawwakul is a response to hardship in one's life, and such hardship is usually faced through fasting, reflection, and prayer.
Tax advantage Tax advantage refers to the economic bonus which applies to certain accounts or investments that are, by statute, tax-reduced, tax-deferred, or tax-free. The most obvious examples are Retirement plans, but investments in many state or municipal bonds can also be exempt from certain taxes.
Tax amnesty Tax amnesty is a limited-time opportunity for individuals and businesses to pay past-due taxes of income, franchise, sales, or use taxes and the related interest – free of most penalties and fees (and interest on penalties and fees) and without fear of criminal prosecution. It typically expires when some authority begins an tax investigation of the past-due tax.
Tax Anti-Injunction Act The Tax Anti-Injunction Act, currently codified at , is a United States federal law enacted in 1867. The statute provides that with fourteen specified exceptions, "no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed".
Tax bracket Tax brackets are the divisions at which tax rates change in a progressive tax system (or an explicitly regressive tax system, although this is much rarer). Essentially, they are the cutoff values for taxable income — income past a certain point will be taxed at a higher rate.
Tax collector A tax collector is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations. Tax collectors are often portrayed in fiction as being evil, and in the modern world share a somewhat similar stereotype to that of lawyers.
Tax consolidation Tax consolidation is a regime adopted in the tax or revenue legislation of a number of countries which treats a group of wholly owned or majority-owned companies and other entities (such as trusts and partnerships) as a single entity for tax purposes. This generally means that the head entity of the group is responsible for all or most of the group's tax obligations (such as paying tax and lodging tax returns).
Tax credit Within the Australian, Canadian, United Kingdom, and United States tax systems, a tax credit is an item which is treated as a payment already made towards taxes owed. A similar concept exists under different names in the French tax system.
Tax cut A tax cut is a reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government, for example on personal or corporate income. Whether a given tax cut will increase or decrease total tax revenues is much discussed by both economists and politicians.
Tax Court of Canada The Tax Court of Canada, established in 1983 by the Tax Court of Canada Act, is a superior court which deals with matters involving companies or individuals and tax issues with the Government of Canada. It replaced the Tax Review Board, a quasi-judicial tribunal, which had previously been known as the Tax Appeal Board.
Tax deed sale A tax deed sale is the forced sale, conducted by a governmental agency, of real estate for nonpayment of taxes. It is one of two methodologies used by governmental agencies to collect delinquent taxes owed on real estate, the other being the tax lien sale.
Tax Day Tax Day is the day that income taxes are due from most employed American citizens. Although income tax was first collected once during the civil war, it was not collected yearly until 1913 when the 16th Amendment was added to the Constitution giving Congress the legal authority to tax people's incomes.
Tax exile A tax exile is one who chooses to leave a country and instead to reside in a foreign nation or jurisdiction because personal taxes there are appreciably lower or even nil. Going into tax exile is a means of tax mitigation or avoidance.
Tax expense Tax expense was computed in earlier years by multiplying the income before tax number, as reported to shareholders, by the appropriate tax rate. The computation was made more complex by the range of tax rates applicable to various levels of income.
Tax exporting Tax exporting occurs when a country (or other jurisdiction) encourages economic activity to move to another country (or jurisdiction) because its taxes are too high. This is more likely if the economic activity is more mobile.
Tax farming Tax farming was originally a Roman practise whereby the burden of tax collection was removed from the Roman State to private individuals or groups. In essence, these individuals or groups paid the taxes for a certain area and for a certain period of time, and then attempted to cover their outlay by collecting money or saleable goods from the people within that area.
Tax free weekend A tax free weekend is a statewide sale in which sales tax is not collected on most goods. They often take place on weekends that are considered major shopping periods for necessities, such as just before school starts.

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