How to Use payroll tax in a Sentence

payroll tax

noun
  • To fund this, Oz has called for a 20 percent payroll tax.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • To pay for it, the state instituted a new payroll tax of 0.44%.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
  • This brings the total Medicare payroll tax rate paid by these households to 3.8%.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The number and size of payroll tax violations is up, and mere IRS penalties are not enough to stop the trend.
    Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • One way the city has proposed making up the gap is with a payroll tax passed in 2020, which targets the city’s largest companies.
    Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Oregon’s program is funded by a payroll tax of 1% on gross wages.
    oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Factor that in, and their effective payroll tax rate is about 1%.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • For households with income of $1 million or more, only about 25% was subject to the payroll tax.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • As a fraction of the total amount of money collected through the payroll tax, the funding gap is about 3.5 percent.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • That’s what the payroll tax being considered in Springfield would do.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • The payroll tax should apply to all work income, period.
    Gerald Scorse, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Biden would increase the top rate of the Medicare payroll tax and the net investment income tax to 5% for those high-income taxpayers.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Raising the retirement age, expanding the payroll tax: what are the options?
    Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Every year since, the payroll tax revenue has not been enough to cover all the benefits paid to current retirees.
    Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The new 5% payroll tax applies to Seattle companies with workers who make at least $1 million a year.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The damage caused by jacking up the payroll tax to the level required to restore solvency isn’t worth the benefit.
    Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • If scrapping the payroll tax is too much of a political challenge, then second best would be to keep the payroll tax and eliminate the cap.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Both the employee and the employer would have to contribute toward this payroll tax.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • Workers bore the burden of the payroll tax increases and higher-income retirees bore the burden of the tax on benefits.
    Andrew Rettenmaier, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • Workers bore the burden of the payroll tax increases, and higher-income retirees bore the burden of the tax on benefits.
    Dennis W. Jansen, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Washington state's first-in-the-nation long-term care payroll tax will go into effect on July 1.
    Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 29 June 2023
  • The program is financed by a payroll tax paid by employers and employees.
    Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Critics blasted the decision by Elon Musk, noting the city in 2011 approved a payroll tax break that saved the company millions.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The largest cut, which would yield about two-thirds of the total pledged relief, involves reducing an existing state payroll tax from 0.5% to 0.4% of a worker’s gross earnings.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In May 2020, voters passed a ballot measure that gave Metro a portion of Hamilton County's sales taxes instead of a city payroll tax.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 15 July 2025
  • The program, which will go into effect in 2026, will be funded by a payroll tax shared between workers and employers.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Earnings over that amount are exempt from the payroll tax, which funds Social Security.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 June 2025
  • Another option is to raise the payroll tax rate slightly, which could also cover some of the solvency issues.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • The benefit will be funded through a statewide insurance program, paid for by a new payroll tax, with employers covering at least half the cost.
    Patrick Knight, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
  • The tax break would apply to workers who typically receive cash tips reported to their employer for payroll tax withholdings, according to the summary of the bill.
    Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,lorie Konish,greg Iacurci,jessica Dickler,annie Nova,ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 1 July 2025

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