How to Use after-tax in a Sentence

after-tax

adjective
  • So, an after-tax return of 22% was needed simply to break even.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the pretax profit for the fourth quarter, after-tax net income came in as a loss due to a special charge.
    Jamie L. Lareau, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Payback period after-tax of 2.9 years (pre-tax of 2.4 years).
    Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Spacey has agreed to pay the $1 million over multiple years in installments equal to 10% of his after-tax income.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Roth accounts are funded with after-tax money and withdrawals are tax=free.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Between the first quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of this year, Nvidia’s revenues quintupled, and its after-tax profits rose more than tenfold.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
  • People will beat down to door to get it, now that the after-tax rate of return on earning and investing has skyrocketed.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The big question is whether your current and future retirement savings should be done on a pre-tax or after-tax (Roth) basis.
    Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Some plans offer after-tax 401(k) contributions on top of those caps.
    Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 1 May 2025
  • Adjusted for inflation, after-tax incomes fell 0.1% in April, the second such drop this year.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
  • But for the Red Sox and other pro teams in Massachusetts, the use of deferred money could help to increase the after-tax value of signings—and make players more likely to sign.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That is just shy of half of that teacher’s after-tax monthly income, well beyond what any financial advisor would tell them to spend.
    Mike McShane, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Among all households in that lowest income group, their after-tax income would increase by an average of about $10.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s, while funded with after-tax dollars, offer tax-free withdrawals in retirement — ideal for long-term growth.
    Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
  • Trump’s plan would reduce average after-tax incomes by almost 3%, according to the tax think tank.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Tax-free accounts, like Roth IRAs, are funded with after-tax money so no taxes are imposed on earnings or withdrawals.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Con Ed’s applications request an after-tax ROE of 10.1%.
    Mark Ellis, New York Daily News, 5 May 2025
  • Next year, the Tax Policy Center says, the full impact of the tariffs will reduce consumers' average after-tax income by 1%.
    Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The software engineer said her spending on fitness ends up being around 15 percent of her after-tax income.
    Mikala Jamison, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Con Edison estimated an after-tax loss of $170 million from the Indian Point sale, according to filings from the time.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The agency can garnish up to 15% of your disposable, or after-tax, pay, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
    Annie Nova, CNBC, 3 June 2025
  • Even if your income was below average in 2024, paying fewer taxes can still increase your net after-tax take-home pay.
    David Rae, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And yet owing to the redistributive mechanisms of the British welfare state, the rate of growth in after-tax family incomes was roughly the same across all sections of the population.
    Anne Case, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The very biggest burden under the Biden plan would have been carried by the very richest households; the Tax Policy Center found that households in the top 0.1% would have seen their after-tax incomes decline by more than 20%.
    Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The company posted an after-tax profit of 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) for the second quarter, a six-percent drop from the same period last year.
    Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The bill largely spurs more economic growth next year by expanding the 2017 tax cuts that already have been lifting Americans’ after-tax income in recent years.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Following it, 50% of your after-tax income goes toward needs, like your housing payment, student loans, groceries, etc.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The accounts are funded with after-tax money, which then compounds tax free.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Contributions made on an after-tax basis are not taxed again when withdrawn.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Parent contributions are after-tax, but that money is not taxable when it is withdrawn.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Jan. 2026

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