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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.
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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
The government levies a surtax on prosperous seniors by boosting their Medicare premiums.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
That lofts all your dividends into surtax category.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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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
The government levies a surtax on prosperous seniors by boosting their Medicare premiums.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
That lofts all your dividends into surtax category.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surtax
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But the president-elect's escalating rhetoric could signal a coming decline in U.S.-Canada relations, while his plan to impose across-the-board tariffs on all foreign goods is likely to have a major effect on trade.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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More politics news → Do Americans support imposing tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada?Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia prohibit tobacco surcharges, according to KFF.Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
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The decrease in revenue was primarily due to decline in volume and fuel surcharges.Joe Cornell, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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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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To keep property taxes low for big business, for example, the governor had to raise sales and excise taxes just to pay for essential government functions.Brucie Porter / Made by History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
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An accompanying state constitutional amendment would set spending growth limits on the General Assembly and direct future revenue growth toward eliminating the personal income tax and corporate income tax.Jonathan Shorman and, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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South Carolina lawmakers have racked up a number of conservative policy victories in recent years (such as the enactment of income tax relief, school choice, and Certificate of Need repeal).Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Aldermen then proceeded to outmaneuver the mayor to land a budget with no property tax increase.Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
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California’s Proposition 13 the previous June, which immediately cut property tax rates by 60 percent, had shown that the real world prefers meat-axe, condition-less tax-rate cuts.Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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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 17 Jan. 2025.
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