How to Use taxation in a Sentence

taxation

noun
  • Teens will learn about the purpose of taxation — and how and when to complete their taxes.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Governments have laws and armies and taxation to back their cause.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • In the case of the royal family, taxation is at worst a minor concern.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • What if cities and townships had not had the power of taxation for streets and roads or if states had not used tax money to build highways?
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, because poor people feel the burden more than the rich.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Here is a comparison of the three different types of taxation and the outcomes.
    Jeff Kirshner, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The taxation committee assumes that 75% of the tax is borne by capital and 25% by labor.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The items exempt from taxation, and the dates when holidays are in effect, can be quite arbitrary.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This approach has now been copied by governments the world over — not just on taxation but on everything.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Godfroy began his legal fight against taxation in the late 1800s.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2022
  • Most countries under-utilize taxation as a tool to improve public health, said the WHO.
    Elina Ganatra, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The justices seemed likely to settle on a ruling that upholds the tax but rejects the government’s broad view of the reach of Congress’s powers of taxation.
    Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Just wait until someone catches him up on the latest regarding the taxation of trade routes.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 3 Jan. 2023
  • On local taxation, for example, Texas ranks 48th — almost as bad as New York, which is 50th.
    Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The panel found that the 1854 treaty protects tribal owners of reservation land from taxation.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There’s next to nothing in the exhibition or the catalogue on taxation.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • If the shares are never sold, then they are never taxed, and under current law, they may be passed on to the next generation with little or no taxation.
    Sophia Voight, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Municipal bonds, many of which are not subject to taxation at the federal level (and in some cases, state level) can make a lot of sense.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • That number was used for taxation purposes and the allotment of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, Horhn rebuked the claim that over taxation remains a widespread problem in Detroit.
    Malachi Barrett, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • The system, in short, would allow states to exit federal control and be subject to taxation only for the purpose of defense.
    John Sharp | , al, 23 Mar. 2023
  • He’s worked in public accounting since 2014, with a focus in taxation, and was a high school math teacher before becoming a CPA.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The laws surrounding taxation are fluid and have changed significantly over the past few years, and could continue to evolve.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The 28-year-old South Asian engineer, who lives in Whitestone, also isn’t registered with a party, cares deeply about taxation and bail reform — and hasn’t made up his mind whom to vote for yet.
    Celeste Katz Marston, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, their employers get to enjoy the avoidance of taxation by paying them under the table.
    Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Among other things, the charter, granted by King Edward IV, granted the areas freedom from taxation.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Rather than pure tax cuts, Dimon noted that taxation should be calibrated to create more growth.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This idea of more progressive taxation gained traction during the pandemic, as the rich saw their fortunes leap while millions of others were left behind.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • However, imposing such high taxation on an asset class and an industry that’s just started to take off would do more harm than good.
    Fortune, 5 July 2022

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