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 plan would lower the income tax rate to a flat 1.5 percent.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The maximum income tax rate is 5% and 2% on the low-end.
    — al, 25 July 2022
  • The income tax cuts in the law would end, reimposing the higher pre-2018 tax rates.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • At the time of Grint's payment, the top income tax rate was 50 percent.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Chouinard doesn’t get an income tax refund for the move.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2022
  • These included the first cut in state income tax rates since the mid-1990s.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The bill does exempt the payments from state income tax.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2022
  • She's also called for phasing out the state's income tax.
    — Andrew Demillo, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
  • If all of the cuts do get phased in, Indiana would have one of the lowest income tax rates in the country.
    — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Duggan praised the city's income tax revenue growth, which reached about $200 million in the last decade.
    — Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Rinke would eliminate the state income tax, which brings in close to $13 billion a year.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2022
  • In the resulting chaos, states have scrambled to fill the gap with regard to state income tax.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Hunter Biden was set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay income tax.
    — USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The budget does not include the 10% personal income tax cut passed by the House last month.
    — Leah Willingham, ajc, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The debate over the film credit came about as part of a broader proposal to slash the state’s income tax.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Arizona and North Dakota (both 2.5%) have the lowest among states with an income tax.
    — Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The bottom 90% paid about a quarter — 28% — of total income tax.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Last year, 57 percent of U.S. households paid no income tax, but that was by design.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 31 Mar. 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
  • And two others on the list—Tennessee and Nevada—also don’t have a state income tax.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The theft charge is a Class 2 felony, punishable by three to seven years in prison, while each count of loan and wire fraud is a Class 3 felony and each count of income tax fraud is a Class 4 felony.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Just two months into the session, 42% of legislators are co-sponsoring bills to create a per-child credit within the state income tax.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025

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