property tax

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Recent Examples of property tax Tax increment finance districts allow property tax proceeds from a real estate development to be used on site for a number of years, funding certain types of environmental or public-facing improvements. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025 Any increases to property tax bills for corporate owners of large apartment buildings would be phased in over three years. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025 At that time, voters approved extending a capital-improvement property tax at the current rate to fund six categories of projects, including a new Little Rock District Court facility. Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025 There are other reasons for property tax bills to increase that aren’t related to trash. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for property tax
Recent Examples of Synonyms for property tax
Noun
  • By comparison, Switzerland’s top personal income tax rate can reach around 40%.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Mothers who have four or more children are exempt from personal income tax.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
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 General Assembly has given Mecklenburg County permission to put a referendum on the ballot to raise the county’s sales tax to fund road, rail and bus projects.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But several aspects of the sales tax measure have rankled Casey and organizations focused on fiscal responsibility.
    Devan Patel, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 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
  • Netflix posted revenue and earnings growth for its third quarter, but a dispute with tax authorities in Brazil ate into profit margins, sending the streaming giant’s stock down in Tuesday after-hours and before Wednesday’s market open.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of city meetings hashed out annexations, zoning, a development agreement and $458 million in tax incremental financing with a separate operator company.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 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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