- Payroll tax : tax on the wages that a firm pays its workers.
- Social insurance tax : basically the same as payroll tax, payroll tax is sometimes called the social insurance taxbecause the revenue frome the taxes is earmarked to pay for social security and medicare.
- Excise tax : taxes on specifics goods, such as gasoline, cigarettes, and alcoholic beverages.
- Property tax : levied as a percentage of the estimated value of land and structures and are paid by property owner.
- Sales tax : levied as a percentage of the total amount spent at retail store.
- Consumption tax : tax on the amount of money that people spend.
- Lump-sum tax : a tax that is the same amount for every one.
- Proportional tax : a tax for which high-income and low-income taxpayers pay the same fraction of income.
- Regressive tax : a tax for which high-income taxpayers pay a smaller fraction of their incomethan do low-income taxpayers.
- Progressive tax : a tax for which high-income taxpayers pay a larger fraction of their income than do low-income taxpayers.
- Individual income tax : tax on the income of individual, and differs for individual.