income tax

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Recent Examples of income tax This could require changes in state law that put California sales and income tax revenues at risk. Marc Joffe, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025 In states without an income tax, property taxes often play a bigger role in funding local services. Mike Winters, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025 Revised Tax Rules For Research and Development Expenditures The federal income tax consequences associated with research and development (R&D) expenditures have changed over time. Matthew L. Roberts, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Companies also weigh the availability of skilled workers and hiring expenses shaped by housing costs and income tax rates. Tina Chen, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for income tax
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Noun
  • Equal Ground Action Fund Executive Director Genesis Robinson told Newsweek that forcing people to pay for documents equates to a poll tax.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • However, under the act, many people would have to pay to get copies of their documents, which could result in a pay-to-vote situation akin to a poll tax.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike districts, Ohio charter schools don't receive local property tax revenue, except for a handful of schools, according to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Mendes indeed was a staunch advocate for that approach, leading alternative proposals for 50-plus cent hikes in 2018 and 2019 and successfully passing Nashville's first property tax rate increase since 2012 as the council's budget chair in 2020.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These interest rules apply if, in a single tax year, the related CFC payer incurs both interest expense that is eligible for the section 954(c)(6) exception (section 954(c)(6) interest expense) and other interest expense.
    Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats have proposed reducing state tax deductions for people earning more than $300,000 to $1,000 for single tax return filers and $2,000 for joint filers, which is estimated would raise $95 million a year.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Santa Clara County’s Measure A has the support of likely voters who appear to favor a sales tax increase on the November ballot to fund the county’s health care system, a new poll commissioned by a local nonprofit shows.
    Grace Hase, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Though there has been general agreement that every penny of tax paid at the gas pump should go to roads — sales tax does not — attempts to remove the sales tax have been stymied by concerns about reduced revenues for schools and local governments, which sales tax revenues support.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Non-qualified earnings face the 30% withholding tax for NRAs, plus a 10% penalty if under 59½, unless an exception applies.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But her defiance drew a warning from Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador of potential consequences if legislators update the law to include penalties such as the state withholding tax money.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The various Indian state governments earn a big portion of their revenue from excise and value-added tax on alcoholic drinks.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Lord De La Warr paid $179,255 for it (including buyer’s premium and value-added tax) after it was originally estimated to go for between $54,000 and $81,000 by Summers Place Auctions.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • That amount counts against the salary cap and luxury tax as dead money.
    Grant Afseth, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The homes are also tax-abated and surrounded by landscaped green spaces, pocket parks, and a row of 30 car condos available to purchase for $375,000-$575,000 per unit.
    Randy Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those drops, while beneficial for the population, aren’t great for sin tax revenues that depend on those behaviors.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • Signal Cleveland reports Council President Blaine Griffin and County Executive Chris Ronayne are in talks to raise the sin tax, which would require a change to state law.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024

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