How to Use taxation in a Sentence

taxation

noun
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  • The rules for state taxation on trusts vary greatly and can reach as high as 10% in some states.
    — Halsey Schreier, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • To live and let live, with the least taxation for the most convenient services.
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Teens will learn about the purpose of taxation — and how and when to complete their taxes.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • First of all, this goes back to the taxation discussion.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • What’s certain is that a change in the taxation of tips would affect millions.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • On the face of it, the story of President Trump’s returns is more about debt than taxation.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Governments have laws and armies and taxation to back their cause.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • Biden’s plan amounts to a reversal of the trend and a return to heavy taxation of U.S. companies.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 July 2021
  • In the case of the royal family, taxation is at worst a minor concern.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • What if cities and townships had not had the power of taxation for streets and roads or if states had not used tax money to build highways?
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The delay may strain the fragile truce in a trade dispute sparked by the issue of digital taxation.
    — William Horobin, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • In the broadest sense, the SALT deduction shifts spending and taxation power down to the state level.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, because poor people feel the burden more than the rich.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Biden has proposed a tax plan that would increase taxation, but his taxes target the wealthy.
    — Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Here is a comparison of the three different types of taxation and the outcomes.
    — Jeff Kirshner, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The taxation committee assumes that 75% of the tax is borne by capital and 25% by labor.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • In modern times, the calamity from which the trust is typically kept safe is taxation.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The fact is there aren’t any loopholes in the tax code that allow high-income people to escape income taxation.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The items exempt from taxation, and the dates when holidays are in effect, can be quite arbitrary.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The European country has made few changes to its taxation policy over the years.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Rather than a general increase in taxation or public debt, attach those costs to the cause.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • So the net effect of this is reducing taxation on wealthy people.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • That rate might be increased by the 3.8% net investment income tax and state and local taxation.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • This approach has now been copied by governments the world over — not just on taxation but on everything.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • By the way, taxation in Europe is less progressive than ours, with the middle class paying a far higher share.
    — WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Godfroy began his legal fight against taxation in the late 1800s.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2022
  • Some lawmakers have been strongly opposed to that idea in the past, saying the state would have no control over how many plants were grown in each home and the state would not share in taxation.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Trump wants to exempt tip income and overtime pay from taxation, and loosen a cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes.
    — Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The first would be to remove the present exemption that the Chinese government enjoys from taxation of portfolio investment income.
    — Alex Raskolnikov, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2025

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