How to Use pretax in a Sentence

pretax

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• Putting all your money in a pretax option could mean facing a whopping tax bill later.
  — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The firm reported more than $29 billion in pretax profits last year.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
• Even before the pandemic, one in four rental households was paying more than half its pretax income on rent, while homelessness was on the rise.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Nearly 90% of the lowest-income households in the state spend over one-third of their pretax income on rent or mortgage payments.
  — Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
• Corporate giving has until now hovered around 1% of pretax profits.
  — Jon Bergdoll, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
• Merck said a pretax charge of $112 million, or 4 cents per share, will be included in its fourth-quarter results.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
• The new law also puts a new floor on corporate charitable donations at 1% of their pretax profits.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
• The previous projection was for $160 million in pretax charges.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025
• The previous projection was for $160 million in pretax charges.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
• That would translate into roughly $900 million in pretax vaccine profits in the first quarter.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• The company stood by its earlier forecast of $9 billion to $11 billion in pretax profit for the year.
  — Nora Eckert, wsj.com, 2 May 2023
• This entails changing pretax funds to Roth money, which comes with an upfront tax bill but has the benefit of tax-free withdrawals in retirement.
  — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
• By some estimates, the firm earned roughly $900 million in pretax profits from the vaccine during the first quarter.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Barclays reported slight beats on both its top- and bottom-lines in the first quarter, with pretax profit rising 11% on a yearly basis.
  — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
• How Roth, pretax 401(k) savings differ Roth refers to how retirement savings are taxed.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
• For this year, Ford expects Ford Blue to post a $7 billion pretax profit, modestly better than last year.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• And yet on the other hand, 51% of the respondents reported an increase in pretax profit margins, up from 47% a year ago.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The restructuring actions announced this year will result in pretax charges of as much as $900 million, the company said.
  — Ryan Beene, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• The company still expects pretax income of $13 billion to $15 billion.
  — Tom Krisher, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
• Those accounts enable families to set aside up to $7,500 in pretax income for childcare expenses.
  — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 22 June 2026
• Group said pretax profit for the first half of fiscal 2024 rose on the back of a resilient consumer demand but warned that outlook remains uncertain.
  — Michael Susin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• Contributing on pretax basis to a 401(k) throughout the year on your paychecks would lower your gross income and overall taxable income for a year.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• The country accounted for 37% of the company’s new car sales last year and 15% of the pretax profit from its passenger-car business.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
• Roth conversions transfer pretax IRA funds to a Roth IRA, which starts future tax-free growth.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
• Those pretax funds will be subject to regular income taxes upon withdrawal, according to the Treasury guidance.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,jessica Dickler, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
• Those pretax funds will be subject to ordinary income taxes upon withdrawal, according to the Treasury guidance.
  — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 June 2026
• More than 87% of low-income Coloradans spend more than one-third of their pretax income on housing — a common benchmark for housing affordability.
  — Jennifer C. Greenfield, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
• In the case of the Asphalt Grave Vault Company, which was part of the plastic-armor outfit, the pretax profit was an egregious forty-eight per cent.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to start tax-free growth.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025