Direct Tax

See: Indirect Tax. Only here, you're taxed...directly.

Like...you earned $100,000 this year, so the gov is going to directly tax you $28,000 for that hard work. You bought a car in The People's Republic of California, so you're going to be taxed on that purchase of $40,000 the requisite 8%, or $3,200. That's a direct tax. It's a tax directly made on a specific narrow activity.