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
  • Again, the middle-class tax break would help right now.
    — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The Covid-19 tax break for gig workers and freelancers.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • The size of the FDII tax break is based in part on how much income a company has.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • One tax break that saved you money last year might not even be around this year.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • Nowhere in the three-page measure are tips defined, nor is there a phase-out of the tax break based on income.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The Senate and House are at loggerheads over how to implement the tax break.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • The tax break that had led Microsoft to open the factory was expiring.
    — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Proposals to cancel the arena’s tax break have languished in Albany for years.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The tax break was expanded in Biden's pandemic response plan, but has since expired.
    — Axios, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The question is will Senate Republicans join us to give Americans a tax break?
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The tax break for buying an electric vehicle is about to hit the accelerator.
    — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • And no, businesses can't receive a tax break for donations raised by customers, Milton said.
    — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • Perhaps Griffin has disavowed a tax break from his Harvard gift, though that’s implausible.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jericho Share, however, is not eligible for the tax break, according to the department.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Donald Trump is proposing to grant a key tax break to U.S. citizens living overseas, pitching the idea as an effort to court votes from potentially millions of Americans who could benefit.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024

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