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8 Sep 2012 —  Taxes

 

How would you improve this sentence?

People want to pay less taxes

People want to pay less taxes.

 

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1.

People want to pay less taxes.

 

2.

People want to pay less tax. 

 

3.

 Change less taxes to fewer taxes.

People want to pay fewer taxes.

4.

 Change less taxes to less in taxes.

People want to pay less in taxes.

 

tax [uncountable and countable] an amount of money that you must pay to the government according to your income, property, goods etc and that is used to pay for public services

Garner (2009) places the use of less as Stage 3 on the Language Change Index