How to Use taxation in a Sentence

taxation

noun
  • The rules for state taxation on trusts vary greatly and can reach as high as 10% in some states.
    Halsey Schreier, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • To live and let live, with the least taxation for the most convenient services.
    Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Teens will learn about the purpose of taxation — and how and when to complete their taxes.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • First of all, this goes back to the taxation discussion.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • At some point of taxation, high earners will flee the metro area, taking jobs with them.
    oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2020
  • What’s certain is that a change in the taxation of tips would affect millions.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • And no one took shots at her, so equitable taxation’s new bestie had a good night.
    Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 27 June 2019
  • One of the top things that tax policy should seek to avoid is double taxation.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 18 June 2025
  • On the face of it, the story of President Trump’s returns is more about debt than taxation.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Keep in mind this is direct taxation without a purpose in mind to fill a gap.
    Sam Rosenstiel, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
  • Low taxation rates promote the idea that all taxes are bad.
    Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
  • Governments have laws and armies and taxation to back their cause.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • Biden’s plan amounts to a reversal of the trend and a return to heavy taxation of U.S. companies.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 July 2021
  • But with every emotional taxation, Allen and the Hoosiers have just pressed on.
    Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Other powers, such as taxation, belong to the US and states.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In the case of the royal family, taxation is at worst a minor concern.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Tips and overtime pay would not be subject to taxation.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
  • What if cities and townships had not had the power of taxation for streets and roads or if states had not used tax money to build highways?
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The delay may strain the fragile truce in a trade dispute sparked by the issue of digital taxation.
    William Horobin, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • In the broadest sense, the SALT deduction shifts spending and taxation power down to the state level.
    Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Behind the cordial tone, the points of friction—over climate change, trade, taxation of tech firms, Iran, Russia and Ukraine—were well known.
    The Economist, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The law changed the taxation of business in additional ways.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, because poor people feel the burden more than the rich.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Biden has proposed a tax plan that would increase taxation, but his taxes target the wealthy.
    Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Here is a comparison of the three different types of taxation and the outcomes.
    Jeff Kirshner, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The taxation committee assumes that 75% of the tax is borne by capital and 25% by labor.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Despite all of this taxation, Delawareans get very little bang for their buck.
    Zoe Callaway, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
  • While Treasuries are in a very real sense a riskless income stream since they’re backed by productive minds via taxation, equities represent an ownership stake in the brilliant work of productive minds.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • At the same time, lawmakers also bracing for a likely special session next month to grapple with the tax bill’s steep impacts, an emergency gathering that will likely include discussions around overtime taxation.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 25 July 2025

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