sales tax

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Recent Examples of sales tax The bill was the state’s largest effort to retain the teams after Jackson County voters rejected a proposal to renew a ⅜ cent sales tax from 2031 to 2071 to build a new Royals stadium and renovate Arrowhead. Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026 If that measure is coming, why must LA County’s less affluent shoppers pay a regressive sales tax right now? Marc Joffe, Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026 All the businesses in this building pay sales tax to the city. Olivia Young, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 No one debated it as a national sales tax, and it wasn’t structured like one. Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sales tax
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Noun
  • The number of tax filers with no federal income tax would increase from 37 million under current law to 66 million under Van Hollen's proposal, according to Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank.
    JEFF STEIN THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The loss of the IEEPA tariffs is a massive blow to the administration’s hopes of tariff revenue not just paying down the nearly $39 trillion national debt, but being used to give rebates to Americans and replace income tax.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In 1964: The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited both Congress and any of the states from imposing a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections, was ratified.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Proponents of the ballot initiative argue that Silicon Valley’s unmatched ecosystem of founders, investors, and talent is so alluring that no single tax would cause current and would-be billionaires to relocate.
    Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For instance, will the severance land in a single tax year and push your household into a higher bracket?
    Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Revisiting a hasty property tax reform House Bill 389 emerged in the waning days of the 2021 legislative session, already the longest in Idaho history.
    Mark Dee March 6, Idaho Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
  • During the city budgeting process four years ago, the Olathe City Council began to investigate what a property tax rebate program could look like for residents.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
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
  • In May, President Donald Trump's administration ended the pandemic-era pause on student loan payments, beginning to collect on defaulted debt through withholding tax refunds and other federal payments to borrowers.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In May, the Trump administration ended the pandemic-era pause on student loan payments, beginning to collect on defaulted debt by withholding tax refunds and other federal payments to borrowers.
    Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The budget came weeks after Gondongwana said South Africa’s debt is projected to peak this fiscal year after rising for nearly two decades, creating room for more infrastructure investment and tax relief.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Lake and Porter counties have also been asked to adopt a 1% food and beverage tax, and Lake County has been asked to pass a 5% innkeepers tax.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
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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