surtax

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Recent Examples of surtax The tax is a surtax on individual property for the wealthy on their second homes. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025 Finally, a surtax on incomes of California’s wealthiest families, approved by voters in 2012 to deal with an earlier budget deficit, was supposed to last only a few years, but a 2016 ballot measure extended it to 2030. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025 Because of statutory and constitutional requirements, those totals put Beacon Hill in a position to stash more money into reserves, and set up another sizable surtax surplus that lawmakers will get to dole out to education and transportation investments. State House News Service, Boston Herald, 9 Aug. 2025 The payroll surtax could rise from the current $126 per employee to as high as $420. The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for surtax
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Noun
  • Max Braswell, executive vice president of the Arkansas Forestry Association, said the forestry industry has come under significant economic pressure due to tariffs, high interest rates and a cooling housing market.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • While Lores has revived HP’s fortunes since becoming CEO in 2019 and continues to grow PC sales, concerns about tariffs and weakness in the printing business have cut 15% from the stock price this year.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The company has added a 15% tariff surcharge to products to offset the cost of tariffs.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Severin Borenstein, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the former chair of the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, identified the surcharge by analyzing years of gas prices in the state and comparing them to costs in other states.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Department leaders requested the change because the agency does not handle excise taxes -- which tax specific goods and services -- and never has.
    Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In July, the state increased the excise rate from 15% to 19%.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then there’s all the other stuff, including California taxes (Tennessee has no state income tax) and the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • People receiving a state income tax refund have the amount of their delinquent parking citations deducted from their refund.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For homeowners in the county, that would come on top of property tax levies that are based on assessed value.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, some Wyandotte residents have tried to get the government to delay or cancel its tax sales, which usually happen twice a year, to prevent people who have struggled to pay sky-rocketing property tax bills from losing their family homes.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 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

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“Surtax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surtax. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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