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When your income is high enough to trigger the surtax regularly, shifting some income investments to tax-exempt bonds instead of other income vehicles could both lower your MAGI and avoid or reduce the surtax.
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
One-percenter taxpayers are on the hook for the state's additional 4% surtax on taxable income over $1 million.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
One-percenter taxpayers are on the hook for the state's additional 4% surtax on taxable income over $1 million.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surtax
Noun
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Other company leaders voiced their concerns about the threat of tariffs ahead of Saturday’s order.—
Kristian Burt,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2025
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Trump's threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and 10 percent tariffs on goods from China could also take effect Saturday.—
Ewan Palmer,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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Higher prices for diesel could lead to a fuel surcharge by trucking companies, which could bleed through to the price of goods, since virtually every item in Americans’ homes were on a truck at some point.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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If both measures are approved, Edison customers will have a roughly 2% surcharge on their bills for the next 30 years, according to regulatory documents.—
Melody Petersen,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
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Most alcohol taxes are flat-rate excise taxes that haven’t been adjusted for inflation in decades.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
13 Jan. 2025
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Everyone understood that the latter included both excise taxes and tariff duties, and most anticipated that these levies would be the principal sources of federal revenue.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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Minnesotans suffer under a high income tax rate, and Minnesota has lost tax-paying residents since 2019.—
Nicole Russell,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Federal income tax is used to keep the country running, paying for expenses ranging from building and repairing the country's infrastructure, to providing education, public transportation and disaster relief.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Senate Bill 1 would accomplish a number of the property tax reforms that Gov. Mike Braun campaigned on.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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This would allow homeowners and farm owners to exclude a portion of their property's value from taxation, effectively lowering their property tax bills.—
Claire Dickey,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Prior to council tax, there was poll tax which was so wildly unpopular, people began rioting across England.—
Tanyel Mustafa,
refinery29.com,
12 Jan. 2024
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But a Venezuelan passport costs more than $300, a price that amounts to a poll tax because few migrants can afford them.—
John Otis,
NPR,
16 Apr. 2024
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“Surtax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surtax. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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