irrational tax ??

[rdesiree]

Hi everyone,
I looked up some stuff to buy on a japanese website, and stumbled upon 税抜, which I translated with Jim Breen's fantastic site to: irrational tax.
Well, we probably all agree that many taxes are irrational but ... you call a tax irrational ?
Anybody has a clue as to what THAT tax applies ?
btw, I was looking for an AV amplifier, which I don't think of as intrinsically irrational... hm, though, maybe...

[Alan]

The first Kanji is tax, the second can mean 'omit', so I'm guessing it means 'excluding tax'.
(But I'm guessing)

[Bueller_007]

I was pretty sure that 税抜き didn't mean "irrational tax", so I looked it up. I'm not seeing this word in Jim's dictionary.

You looked it up and copied the first hit, which was *not* an exact match for the word you were looking for.

The first hit returned is "悪税", which means "irrational tax", or literally, "bad tax".

Goo.ne.jp describes this word as:
不当に課せられる税金。

So you might say that Germany's income tax rate in 悪税, because it's 40+%. Or so I've heard.

税抜き means "tax excluded", as Alan suggested.


I've just submitted 税抜き as a new entry to edict.

[rdesiree]

Thank you, guys. That does indeed make sense.
I'll look closer next time I get strange results in the dictionary