开征

開徵

kāizhēng

verb

Meanings

1 to begin levying (a tax)
2 to start collecting taxes
3 to introduce a new tax

Characters

to start; to open

to levy; to collect (tax)

Examples

政府决定明年开征房产税。

Zhèngfǔ juédìng míngnián kāizhēng fángchǎnshuì.

The government has decided to begin levying property tax next year.

新关税将于下月开征。

Xīn guānshuì jiāng yú xiàyuè kāizhēng.

The new tariff will start being collected next month.

Tips

register

Formal/legal vocabulary — appears almost exclusively in news reports about tax policy and government announcements. The object is always a tax or levy, never something you'd 'collect' in casual speech.

Stroke Order

开 kāi

征 zhēng