How to Use tax base in a Sentence

tax base

noun
  • But the biggest boost for the town is the 2.94% increase in the tax base.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The hit to the tax base of Gulf fishing towns will be even worse for 2019.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The tax base increased by nearly 4% last year, the ninth year of growth.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The pitch was to expand the local tax base and bring jobs to people in the area.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The idea, Hill said, is to invest in a stagnant area and expand the tax base in the long run.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • The village lacked much of a commercial tax base to help pay the bills.
    — At A Great Price, ProPublica, 15 May 2020
  • The plant provides about 28 percent of Oak Park Heights’ tax base.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But there may not be a big enough tax base there to cover the cost of rebuilding the dam.
    — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The dip in price was made worse by the fact that employees owe taxes based on the IPO price of $45 a share.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The scale of such an operation cannot fall to any one city's tax base.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Its tax base shrinking, by 1975 the city could not pay its bills or service its debt.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Specifically, the township is a small fraction of the tax base for the area.
    — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • To broaden the tax base, the proposal would extend the sales tax to a number of services.
    — Bruce Schreiner, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The key to solving that problem is expanding the tax base.
    — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • If the new home is worth more than the old home, the difference in market values will be added to the old home’s tax base.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • However, the utility still counts for about 8% of the city’s tax base.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Downtown has emptied out, posing grave threats to the city tax base.
    — Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Doing so would ensure that the tax base keeps pace with demands on the public purse.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But by then white flight had devastated the city’s tax base.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Lee noted that growth in the tax base relieved pressure on the new budget.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 7 May 2021
  • But if the tax base itself is a ridiculously small fraction of the wealth, that’s not going to work.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • Previously, the state charged a sales tax based on the prices consumers pay.
    — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Killing the tax break is a key part of a larger movement this year to broaden the state’s tax base and lower tax rates.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
  • This can be done with long-range planning and a commitment to keeping the tax base low.
    — Jay Rohe, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The commercial tax base will grow, and the economy thrive.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020
  • Without industry to prop up the tax base, the county couldn’t come up with that kind of money.
    — Andy Miller, ajc, 31 Dec. 2021
  • But without a tax base to pay for its move, the tribe sought federal money.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
    — Campbell Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The development will add $225 million to the Mooresville tax base, officials with the developer said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Naperville city should consider broadening their capital investments beyond Downtown Naperville for an equitable growth of tax base around the city.
    — Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025

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