The term direct tax has more than one meaning: a colloquial meaning and, in the United States, a constitutional law meaning. Certain taxes may be direct taxes in the colloquial sense but indirect taxes in the constitutional sense.
In the UK, direct tax refers to tax levied directly off of an organisation or an individual person, like income tax.
In the UK, direct tax refers to tax levied directly off of an organisation or an individual person, like income tax.