How to Use income tax in a Sentence

income tax

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  • The new law will lower income taxes for most taxpayers.
  • Federal income tax will be deducted from your pay.
  • The plan would lower the income tax rate to a flat 1.5 percent.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • These included the first cut in state income tax rates since the mid-1990s.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Trump has also proposed replacing federal income tax with tariffs.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Under Michigan law, these cases can result in creditors garnishing up to a quarter of a person’s wages, as well as refunds from their state income tax returns.
    — Sarah Alvarez, ProPublica, 23 Aug. 2022
  • This time around, Stefanowski has praised House and Senate Republicans for pitching a middle class income tax cut.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Trump's plan would mostly help middle- and high-income retirees, given that low-income retirees often don't make enough to pay federal income tax on their benefits, according to tax experts.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The income tax cuts in the law would end, reimposing the higher pre-2018 tax rates.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Chouinard doesn’t get an income tax refund for the move.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The residents of this city voted to increase their income tax by a half a percent.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • New income tax brackets announced The IRS has raised the income thresholds and standard deductions for next year.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • One recent study finds that middle- and high-earning households move to non-income-tax states after large personal income tax hikes.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

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