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The overall increase in the corporation tax, which includes the unitary tax, is $168 million in the second year of the two-year budget, according to Lamont’s plan.—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025 Another form of the Trump administration directly aligning with the unitary executive theory is its explicit push to relitigate Humphrey's Executor, the 1953 Supreme Court ruling that granted protection to federal workers from political persecution.—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025 His recent executive order attempting to place independent regulatory agencies under presidential purview betrays a desire to pursue an extreme version of the unitary executive theory favored by many Trump allies.—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 His jurisprudence relating to the powers of the Presidency under Article II of the Constitution, which vests the executive power in a single chief executive, represents the purest distillation of the unitary executive theory.—Cristian Farias, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unitary
: having the character of a single thing that is a constituent of a whole
specifically: of, relating to, or being a business with subsidiaries in other states or nations that has its state income tax figured by including the subsidiaries' income, determining the portion of that income attributable to activities within the state, and taxing that percentage
a unitary business operating throughout the U.S.
imposed a unitary tax on a multinational corporation
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