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Recent Examples of sales tax
Milwaukee Athletic Club has compiled overdue state sales tax payments totaling more than $200,000 − but its board president says the private club is financially healthy.
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Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 7 Nov. 2025
The completion of the spending plan marks the end of an especially tense budget year after Johnston announced in May that the city would have to make $250 million in cuts to general fund spending over the next two years amid slowing sales tax revenue.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
Last year, a 1-cent city sales tax and a half-cent countywide transportation tax went before voters and were defeated by the slimmest of margins.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The sales tax is forecasted to raise $330 million in a full fiscal year, leaving the county with a $470 million funding gap to bridge in 2026-27.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
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Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 7 Nov. 2025
The completion of the spending plan marks the end of an especially tense budget year after Johnston announced in May that the city would have to make $250 million in cuts to general fund spending over the next two years amid slowing sales tax revenue.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
Last year, a 1-cent city sales tax and a half-cent countywide transportation tax went before voters and were defeated by the slimmest of margins.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The sales tax is forecasted to raise $330 million in a full fiscal year, leaving the county with a $470 million funding gap to bridge in 2026-27.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sales tax
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Hungary offers a number of incentives, including exempting women with four or more children from paying income tax, but is still struggling to coax people to have kids.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The city’s biggest hook on the billionaire set is a personal income tax that is, practically speaking, optional.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Take the quiz here … WALLET RELIEF – These 10 states offer the biggest property tax savings for American homeowners.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trump himself has long torpedoed the very idea of a carbon tax.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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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“Sales tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sales%20tax. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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