How to Use income tax in a Sentence

income tax

noun
  • The new law will lower income taxes for most taxpayers.
  • Federal income tax will be deducted from your pay.
  • The residents of this city voted to increase their income tax by a half a percent.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Seven states — including Texas and Florida — have no state income tax.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Refunds will be issued based on the order in which 2021 individual income tax returns are filed.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Residents in the city of Carlisle will be asked to approve an increase in their income tax – from 1.5% to 2% – to increase dollars going to the police department.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Before the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The income tax cuts in the law would end, reimposing the higher pre-2018 tax rates.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • She's also called for phasing out the state's income tax.
    Andrew Demillo, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Duggan praised the city's income tax revenue growth, which reached about $200 million in the last decade.
    Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Hunter Biden was set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay income tax.
    USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The corporate income tax is a flat rate of 8.84 percent.
    Kristian Fors, Orange County Register, 15 July 2024
  • That would bring Hyundai’s state income tax savings to $223 million.
    Jeff Amy, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Biden raised the top personal income tax rate to 39.6 percent?
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The state came in 40th for personal income tax and 37th for its corporate tax.
    Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Sep. 2024
  • What’s needed is to reduce income tax rates at all levels and extend the sales tax to services.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This assumes the two bonds are comparable in risk and the investor is not subject to any state income tax.
    Chris Gunster, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The agency also is inviting all states with a state income tax to sign up and help people file their state returns for free.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 May 2024
  • Bonilla and Griffey both live in Florida, which does not have a state income tax.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 July 2024
  • For many, those benefits far outweigh any downsides, like the state’s high income tax rate.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Lawmakers did not enact an income tax until the Civil War, to pay for the Union war effort.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The plan to speed up income tax cuts will be on the agenda for the regular legislative session, which will begin next month.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
  • On top of that, Dubai has no income tax, which helps residents’ money go further.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Hyatt decamped to Nevada, which does not levy income tax.
    K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The funding comes from local income tax revenue in fiscal 2024.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
  • Payments will be made to the same bank account where your 2020 income tax refund was deposited.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The law that authorized them, AB192, exempted them from state income tax.
    Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The measure would move Kansas from three state income tax brackets to two, providing many taxpayers with a break in the process.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
  • The budget will now provide $175 million in tax relief and won't condense the state's four income tax brackets into three.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2023
  • What Rainwater proposes: Eliminate the state income tax and gasoline excise tax, among others, in order to increase Hoosiers' take-home pay.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2024

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