tax burden

noun

: responsibility for paying a greater portion of taxes
The tax burden has been falling increasingly on the middle class.

Examples of tax burden in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nobody wakes up in the morning wanting to increase or extend a tax burden. Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024 To pay for former President Trump’s tax cuts for large corporations and the rich, congressional Republicans pushed the tax burden further onto middle-class families by capping the amount of state and local taxes that can be deducted from federal income taxes. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 And given that the individual tax cuts implemented as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire after 2025, many people may see their tax burden increase. Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024 Depending on the number of heirs and the value of the retirement assets in question, there are a variety of other ways to split the distribution of an IRA to stretch out RMDs and/or minimize the tax burden of beneficiaries. Rory O'Hara, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tax burden 

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“Tax burden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tax%20burden. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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