How to Use tax break in a Sentence
tax break
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For years, there have been concerns that the tax break is easy to abuse.
—Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 28 May 2024
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The size of the FDII tax break is based in part on how much income a company has.
—Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
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One tax break that saved you money last year might not even be around this year.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
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The Senate and House are at loggerheads over how to implement the tax break.
—Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 15 June 2023
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The tax break that had led Microsoft to open the factory was expiring.
—Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2023
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Leashes, collars and muzzles for pets and pads, as well as cat litter that cost more are also included in the tax break.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 25 May 2024
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Proposals to cancel the arena’s tax break have languished in Albany for years.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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The novel endures thanks to its keen understanding that many people in this town see movies as a metaphor, a proxy for other forms of currency: the tax break, the blind item, the call sheet, the high horse.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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If getting a tax break rubs you the wrong way, consider donating your tax savings to your charity of choice.
—David Rae, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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Extell will receive a tax break and will retain ownership and water rights to the property.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
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To receive a film-industry tax break, the dog had to stay in New York, and Staten Island was the best option for an affordable rental with an ample back yard.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
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Federal lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would give consumers a tax break on the purchase of a new electric bike.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
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Five plug-in hybrids are eligible for a tax break, but only the Chrysler Pacifica qualifies for the full $7,500.
—Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
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The tax break for buying an electric vehicle is about to hit the accelerator.
—Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
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Another point in the deal’s favor: It is paid for by reforming a Covid-era tax break that has become notorious for abuse.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
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Perhaps Griffin has disavowed a tax break from his Harvard gift, though that’s implausible.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
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In France, a government plan to phase out a tax break for farmers on diesel fuel, as part of a wider energy transition policy, has also sparked anger.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
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In 2011, San Francisco lured a number of tech companies — including X, formerly known as Twitter — to the rough patch of downtown in exchange for a tax break.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
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Even though Amazon wouldn’t commit on paper to things like diversity hiring quotas, the county still promised a record-setting tax break.
—Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta’s booming film industry thanks to Georgia’s extremely generous tax break.
—R.j. Rico, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
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In other words, as the cost of living increases, so would the tax break afforded to those eligible for homestead exemptions: residents who own and live in their own homes.
—Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
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Jericho Share, however, is not eligible for the tax break, according to the department.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
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Building off those local efforts, federal lawmakers recently reintroduced a bill that would give consumers a tax break on the purchase of a new e-bike.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
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Kellner has continued to be a big donor for Wisconsin's senior senator since scoring the favorable tax break.
—Andrew Hahn, Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2023
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The child tax credit is a tax break for parents and guardians of qualifying children (more on eligibility later).
—Becca Stanek, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
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That tax break has helped create dynastic fortunes worth billions of dollars and is what motivates wealth tax advocates such as Sanders and Warren to capture the owed tax now, not later or even never.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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Still, even in the face of deficits, Newsom and the state Legislature last year gave a lucrative tax break to the state’s film and television industry while also agreeing to gradually raise the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 per hour.
—Adam Beam, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
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The roughly $78 billion in tax cuts would be paid for by more quickly ending a tax break Congress approved during the covid-19 pandemic that encouraged businesses to keep employees on their payroll.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
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In the lead-up to the election, Disney asked the Anaheim City Council to shred two major tax break deals the company had been granted, one involving taxes on gate revenue, the other involving bed taxes on a luxury hotel project.
—Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
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Amendment 5, placed on the ballot by Florida lawmakers, would in most years increase the value of a tax break known as the homestead property tax exemption by adjusting its value to match inflation.
—Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
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