How to Use after-tax in a Sentence
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            So, an after-tax return of 22% was needed simply to break even.
                        
 —John S. Tobey, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 
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            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 
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            Payback period after-tax of 2.9 years (pre-tax of 2.4 years).
                        
 —Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024 
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            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 
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            Roth accounts are funded with after-tax money and withdrawals are tax=free.
                        
 —Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            Some plans offer after-tax 401(k) contributions on top of those caps.
                        
 —Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 1 May 2025 
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            Adjusted for inflation, after-tax incomes fell 0.1% in April, the second such drop this year.
                        
 —Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            Trump’s plan would reduce average after-tax incomes by almost 3%, according to the tax think tank.
                        
 —Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024 
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            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 
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            Con Ed’s applications request an after-tax ROE of 10.1%.
                        
 —Mark Ellis, New York Daily News, 5 May 2025 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            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 
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            So all else equal, after the divorce, cash and investments in a brokerage account will have a greater value after-tax compared to (non-Roth) retirement accounts.
                        
 —Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023 
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            This aims to boost after-tax investment returns by strategically holding stocks and bonds in certain account types.
                        
 —Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025 
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            And employers could settle at slightly lower wage rates because their employees were taking more home after-tax.
                        
 —Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025 
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