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A direct tax is tax paid directly to the Government, by a person whom the tax is imposed on. An indirect tax is paid indirectly to the Government, trough a third party.
A direct tax would be taxes like income taxes, where a person must personally pay a certain amount to the government. Indirect taxes are taxes such as property, social security, and sales tax, where there price of tax is either deducted from wages or added onto the payment of an item. The indirect taxes are paid the Government by the business that collects the tax.