Sometimes you can both Count and Measure
rogersgeorge on April 10th, 2021
Take taxes. You can have kinds of tax, such as income, sales, inheritance, property, and so on. In this context, you count, which means you use number. But one tax can come in different amounts of money, so you measure. So is this sentence correct?
The company has long been criticized for the amount of taxes it pays.
From an Axios article about Amazon
Depends on the context. If they’re talking about the amount of, say corporate income tax, then the sentence is correct. But if they’re talking about avoiding certain types of tax, such as sales tax or property tax, then the sentence would be incorrect. Not being a tax lawyer, I dunno.
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