How to Use tax-free in a Sentence

tax-free

adjective
  • Some can’t be bothered with the concept of tax-free weekends.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Most shoes, clothes and school supplies under $100 will be tax-free over the weekend.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025
  • So while Texas isn’t tax-free, your wage goes further here than in many other places.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Because who wouldn’t want tax-free money set aside for the future?
    Amy Wagner and Steve Hruby, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2024
  • What’s more, the income from an IRA is either tax-deferred or tax-free.
    Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The most attractive advantage of a 529 plan is tax-free earnings, and these grow over some time.
    Aaron W. Clarke, Cfp, Aif, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • What’s more, the income from muni bonds is tax-free for most Americans.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The money grows tax free, and qualified withdrawals are tax-free.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • For most of those people, the relief is a tax-free gift from the federal government.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
  • After decades of lax enforcement, many waiters in 1983 had come to view tax-free tips as a matter of right.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Sometimes the savings are in the tax-free element and not the actual purchase price.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2024
  • Parents and students can do some back-to-school shopping and get deals on specific items that will be tax-free.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Cheng added that Hong Kong is also in the midst of building an ambitious, tax-free art hub in a bid to lure more wealthy residents to the city.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But, once your conversions are done, the tax-free income from Roth may lower your cost of Medicare.
    D. Scott Kenik, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The reality is that out of the top 10 U.S. teams in the first 10 years under the salary cap, only Nashville was located in a tax-free state.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • New Jersey no longer has a tax-free holiday for school supplies.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This allows the investment gains to grow, and withdrawals are tax-free in retirement.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There are many strategies for making tax-free lifetime transfers of assets to loved ones.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This allows readily available tax-free access to a portion of the Roth IRA.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The de minimis tax exemption allows packages worth less than $800 to be shipped into the U.S. tax-free and duty-free.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Wells Fargo said the tax-free electronics spinoff, set for Nov. 1, will unlock value.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That means $5 trillion of wealth will be passed onto the next generation tax-free, Oxfam says.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Roth contributions at the start of your career can reap tax-free interest for decades.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Contributions to a Gold IRA may be tax deductible, and payouts may be tax-free or tax-deferred.
    Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Changes to rules regarding tax-free investment accounts have accounted for some of the runup in share prices.
    Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The silver lining of stocks’ sharp decline in 2022 is the fact that investors can build up their pot of tax-free retirement savings at a lower cost.
    Cnbc Pro Staff, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The tax-free spinoff won't include the NBC or Telemundo broadcast networks.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
  • As the sales begin to rev up for 2023, Apple has listed the products that qualify for tax-free status on its website.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • The companies announced the all-stock, tax-free transaction Tuesday, saying that board members of each unanimously approved the agreement.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That money will be tax-free to the employee.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026

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