Krillion prompt · October 2, 2026
Name a standard type of tax (currently levied in at least one country)
Krillion accepted 150 answers for this prompt in Dive #79. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 150 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 433), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 89 answers (59%) are Deep Cuts and 42 are Rare, while 3 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Cess +60 Tithe +60 Fat tax +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Hot spring tax
Japan levies a hot spring tax on each onsen bath.
- Zakat
Zakat asks Muslims to give 2.5 percent of their wealth yearly.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Accumulated earnings tax
- Advertising tax
- Aggregates levy
- Agricultural tax
- Air conditioner tax
- Amusement tax
- Annual tax on enveloped dwellings
- Anti-dumping duty
- Apprenticeship levy
- Bank levy
- Base erosion tax
- Bicycle tax
- Branch profits tax
- Broadcasting tax
- Business rates
- Capital transfer tax
- Carbon border tax
- Coffee tax
- Commercial rent tax
- Construction tax
- Countervailing duty
- Distributed profits tax
- Diverted profits tax
- Dog tax
- Drug tax
- Earmarked tax
- Education tax
- Emergency services levy
- Endowment tax
- Energy drink tax
- Energy tax
- Exit tax
- Farmland occupation tax
- Financial transaction tax
- Firearms tax
- Fringe benefits tax
- Garbage tax
- Gas guzzler tax
- Generation-skipping transfer tax
- Global minimum tax
- Gross receipts tax
- Horse tax
- Hunting tax
- Insurance premium tax
- Investment income tax
- Kiddie tax
- Land appreciation tax
- Landfill tax
- Local business tax
- Lump-sum tax
- Mansion tax
- Meals tax
- Military tax
- Mobile money tax
- Mortgage recording tax
- Nanny tax
- Nuclear tax
- Octroi
- Packaging tax
- Parking tax
- Pesticide tax
- Pigouvian tax
- Plastic tax
- Presumptive tax
- Professional tax
- Remittance tax
- Rental car tax
- Resource rent tax
- Second home tax
- Securities transaction tax
- Service tax
- Severance tax
- Solidarity tax
- Specific tax
- Sport fishing and archery tax
- Stock buyback tax
- Superfund tax
- Surtax
- Tanning tax
- Telecommunications tax
- Tire tax
- Tonnage tax
- Turnover tax
- Unrelated business income tax
- Utility tax
- Vacancy tax
- Vaccine tax
- Vaping tax
- Water tax
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Ad valorem tax
- Alcohol tax
- Alternative minimum tax
- Cannabis tax
- Carbon tax
- Cess
- Church tax
- Congestion charge
- Council tax
- Departure tax
- Digital services tax
- Direct tax
- Dividend tax
- Environmental tax
- Export tax
- Fat tax
- Flat tax
- Franchise tax
- Gambling tax
- Gift tax
- Hotel tax
- Indirect tax
- Land tax
- National Insurance
- Personal property tax
- Plastic bag tax
- Poll tax
- Progressive tax
- Regressive tax
- Salt tax
- Self-employment tax
- Stamp duty
- Sugar tax
- Tithe
- Tourist tax
- Transfer tax
- Unemployment tax
- Use tax
- Vehicle tax
- Wealth tax
- Windfall tax
- Withholding tax
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Capital gains tax
- Corporate tax
- Estate tax
- Excise tax
- Fuel tax
- Inheritance tax
- Luxury tax
- Medicare tax
- Payroll tax
- Sin tax
- Social Security tax
- Tariff
- Tobacco tax
- Value-added tax
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Income tax
- Property tax
- Sales tax