income tax

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Recent Examples of income tax If the ballot measure is approved, the 1% income tax would be repealed. Carl Weiser, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025 The Tax Foundation study found that overall, California’s income tax ranks 49th highest, behind only New York. David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025 Earnings before income tax, or EBIT, also collapsed, with both adjusted and reported EBIT falling by more than 80 percent. Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025 By contacting, a low income tax clinic a taxpayer can receive help in resolving the problem in a few ways. Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for income tax
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Noun
  • Republicans meanwhile have pushed against expansion, especially by supporting voter ID laws, which can make voting more time consuming, and in some cases, may require people to pay fees to secure IDs (which critics liken to a poll tax).
    Time, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Upon the basis of these findings, Congress declares that the constitutional right of citizens to vote is denied or abridged in some areas by the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These stores would operate without rent or property tax obligations and aim to sell at wholesale prices, passing on savings to customers.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Take the quiz here … WALLET RELIEF – These 10 states offer the biggest property tax savings for American homeowners.
    , FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 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
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  • At least 15 cities and counties, including Conway and Sherwood, have ballot measures ranging from bond issues for municipal construction to sales tax renewals.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The team’s lease with Arrowhead Stadium expires in January 2031, and Jackson County residents opposed the city’s sales tax proposal designed to help fund the stadiums for the Chiefs and MLB's Kansas City Royals.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
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  • 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
  • Trump himself has long torpedoed the very idea of a carbon tax.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Bloomberg, who served three consecutive terms as mayor in the early 2000s, also pushed for steep tax hikes on the wealthy, and even proposed free transit in some places.
    Connor Greene, Time, 5 Nov. 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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