income tax

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Recent Examples of income tax That would nevertheless break Labour's manifesto pledges to not raise income tax, national insurance for employees or VAT. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025 The Yale Budget Lab found 37% of workers earning tips had incomes low enough to exempt them from paying federal income tax in 2022, meaning the tax deduction would not even be relevant. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025 The provision is a federal income tax deduction of up to $25,000, not a full exemption from all taxes. Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025 Another provision of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill was to provide income tax relief. Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for income tax
Recent Examples of Synonyms for income tax
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
  • If some of that revenue were used for property tax relief … Detroit would still be a high property tax city.
    Malachi Barrett, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Doing so enables the developers to receive a property tax cut offered by Cook County.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 2 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
  • The stadium funding package included a reduction in a sales tax administrative fee the state charges the city and county that is intended to help cover the annual payments.
    Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Nobody had suggested the sales tax was primarily responsible for the state’s fiscal surplus.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 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
  • The permit applications showed oil companies requested to flare or vent more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year, enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions of dollars of tax revenue had the gas been captured.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Both measures became state law after legislators tucked them into a 1,000-plus page tax bill approved by Walz.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 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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