Definition of Pay as you earn

1. Noun. The British system of withholding tax.

Exact synonyms: Paye
Generic synonyms: Withholding, Withholding Tax

Definition of Pay as you earn

1. Noun. (British) The national system whereby income tax and national insurance is deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pay As You Earn

paxwax
paxwaxes
paxywaxy
pay
pay-and-display
pay-as-you-go
pay-by-wave
pay-off
pay-offs
pay-per-view
pay-phone
pay-station
pay-to-play
pay TV
pay and display
pay as you earn (current term)
pay attention
pay back
pay cash
pay check
pay cheque
pay claim
pay cut
pay day
pay dirt
pay envelope
pay for
pay grade
pay heed
pay off

Literary usage of Pay as you earn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Pragmatic Legal Expert System by James Popple (1996)
"The legal expert identified the question of whether the worker's employer deducted "pay as you earn" (PAYE) tax instalments from the worker's pay as being ..."

2. University Research Management: Meeting the Institutional Challenge by Helen Connell (2004)
"The Council of Ministers of 8 October 2002 actually approved the partial elimination of the pay-as-you-earn or ..."

3. Constraints on Kenya's Food and Beverage Exports by Michael Schluter (1984)
"These include an annual tax return, Pay as You Earn tax, contributions to the National Social Security Fund and the National Hospital Insurance Fund, ..."

4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The average weekly hours of work and average weekly earnings of workers in the United Kingdom In 1938 and in 1957-1963 were as follows:— pay as you earn, ..."

5. Managing the Monster: Urban Waste and Governance in Africa by Adepoju G. Onibokun (1999)
"Apart from taxes deducted at source, under the Pay-As- You-Earn system, very rarely do people pay other forms of rates, not even property rates. ..."

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