property tax

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Recent Examples of property tax Per the listing held by Geoffrey Frid of Compass, the dwelling is also covered by the Mills Act, which offers significant property tax savings in exchange for preserving the historic appearance. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2025 Zoom in: Senate Bill 1 would reform the state's property tax system, cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from public school budgets statewide. Arika Herron, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025 The expansion would generate $200,000 in additional annual property tax revenues to Huntersville, Jamestown officials said. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025 Senate Bill 1 would accomplish a number of the property tax reforms that Gov. Mike Braun campaigned on. Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for property tax 
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Noun
  • The move was part of an overhaul aimed at eventually phasing out the state's individual income tax altogether which also extended the state sales tax to more services.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Residents of these remote villages rely on VITA to prepare free income tax returns.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The payments sent back $250 to single tax filers and $375 to head-of-household filers.
    Chris McKenna, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This strategy, involves clustering donations in a single tax year to surpass the standard deduction and make itemizing worthwhile.
    James Brewer, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Prior to council tax, there was poll tax which was so wildly unpopular, people began rioting across England.
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But a Venezuelan passport costs more than $300, a price that amounts to a poll tax because few migrants can afford them.
    John Otis, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Under an amendment to the federal law effective Jan. 3, the social security withholding tax of 5.85 percent is being levied against the first $13,200 of salaries and wages.
    Bernice Hoffman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Washington requires foreign financial institutions to disclose their American clients’ financial information to the U.S. Treasury and imposes a 30 percent withholding tax on certain payments to foreign financial institutions that don’t comply.
    Nicholas Shaxson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • For calendar year 2023, Clarendon Hills had total sales tax revenues of $1,235,448, meaning that its grocery tax revenue was about $370,600.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Elk Grove relies heavily on sales tax revenues — the city’s largest individual revenue source.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lord De La Warr paid $179,255 for it (including buyer’s premium and value-added tax) after it was originally estimated to go for between $54,000 and $81,000 by Summers Place Auctions.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The various Indian state governments earn a big portion of their revenue from excise and value-added tax on alcoholic drinks.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Between the lines: The Senate has historically opposed raising the tax while the House has been more supportive.
    Arika Herron, Axios, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Since just about the Stone Age — say, the 1990s — Republicans have called for replacing the income tax with a consumption tax, for defunding USAID, for abolishing the Department of Education, and for reforming Social Security.
    Amity Shlaes, National Review, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The teams' leases stipulate the public is responsible for repair costs, but the lone funding source — the county sin tax on cigarettes and alcohol — is no longer sufficient to cover their demands.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Signal Cleveland reports Council President Blaine Griffin and County Executive Chris Ronayne are in talks to raise the sin tax, which would require a change to state law.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024

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