How to Use tax-exempt in a Sentence

tax-exempt

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  • When the state forced the tax-exempt foundation to open to the public two days a week, Barnes students picketed.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The city and port plan to use general fund and tax revenues from the resort property to pay for taxable and tax-exempt bonds.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
  • In exchange for the voluntary payments, the city agrees not to challenge the colleges’ tax-exempt status.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Why should one income source be tax-exempt but not another?
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The suit was dropped, but Synanon could not regain public favor, closing down after the IRS revoked the group’s tax-exempt status in 1982.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Advertisement Never mind that the idea of making tips tax-exempt has flaws.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Read Next National Trump says Harvard shouldn’t be tax-exempt — but do voters agree?
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • Court records say the conversion was done solely to get the tax-exempt funding from the Arizona authority.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • Harvard has also faced the threat of federal funding cuts and the rescinding of its tax-exempt status.
    Chad De Guzman, Time, 5 June 2025
  • The land becomes tax-exempt and the developer agrees to reserve at least 50% of the apartment units for people making up to 80% of the area’s median income.
    Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, the temple persuaded the IRS to recognize it not only as a tax-exempt religion but as a proper church.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The project also called for public support in the form of about $200 million in tax-exempt bond financing as well as a Brownfield future tax-capture.
    Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Ferguson’s fight drew media attention and even a threat to revoke the DAR’s tax-exempt status.
    Corinne Dorsey, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Not-for-profit, or tax-exempt hospitals, account for most hospitals and health systems in the U.S.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Donating to these kinds of tax-exempt groups is not tax deductible and the Internal Revenue Service doesn't require them to disclose their list of donors.
    Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
  • The project mainly will be funded by tax-exempt municipal bonds.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Then in 2019, Sanford Health — a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital system — acquired the nursing home.
    Harris Meyer, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Ptolemy declared the temples tax-exempt to curry their favor.
    Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Under the statute, tax-exempt properties must fill out forms explaining their non-profit work.
    Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • Any income generated by the LLC would flow up to the charity, which being tax-exempt did not pay any taxes on that income.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Clothing, backpacks and school supplies have to be under $100 to be tax-exempt, and delivery and transportation charges are counted as part of the total sales price.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Due date for many tax-exempt organizations to file their 2024 tax returns.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • Many items meet tax-exempt status — with certain price qualifiers.
    Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • This is because many grant providers require all recipients to have tax-exempt status.
    Philip Hackney, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
  • But just because a hospital’s name goes up on a building doesn’t mean that property has become tax-exempt, Lawson said.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The club, a nonprofit corporation, lost its tax-exempt status in 2010.
    Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The tax-exempt status is one of these tools; prescription drug discounts offered under the 340B program are another.
    Joe Theine, Denver Post, 15 July 2025
  • The federal government is spending $3 billion on the project, as well as offering access to $3.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But its low rates and its tax-exempt status give it competitive advantages.
    Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • All retailers must participate and are not permitted to charge tax on items that are legally tax-exempt for the weekend holiday.
    Keelin Fisher, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2025

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