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Current Stealth Taxes include the taxation of Social Security benefits, the Medicare premium surtax, and the 3.8% net investment income tax.
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
When your income is high enough to trigger the surtax regularly, shifting some income investments to tax-exempt bonds instead of other income vehicles could both lower your MAGI and avoid or reduce the surtax.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
When your income is high enough to trigger the surtax regularly, shifting some income investments to tax-exempt bonds instead of other income vehicles could both lower your MAGI and avoid or reduce the surtax.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surtax
Noun
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Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico are currently on hold, after agreements were struck on additional border security measures and commitments against drug trafficking.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Trump also hiked his 2018 aluminum tariffs to 25% from 10%.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile: The Waffle House and some Chicago restaurants, including Wishbone and Cebu have added temporary egg surcharges to some dishes on their menus, WBEZ reports.—
Monica Eng,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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In one recent example of this, the diner chain Waffle House added a 50-cent surcharge to every egg sold to account for the rising costs, per the AP.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
12 Feb. 2025
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Most alcohol taxes are flat-rate excise taxes that haven’t been adjusted for inflation in decades.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
13 Jan. 2025
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Everyone understood that the latter included both excise taxes and tariff duties, and most anticipated that these levies would be the principal sources of federal revenue.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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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
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Residents of these remote villages rely on VITA to prepare free income tax returns.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
7 Feb. 2025
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But there has to be a better way to do this and part of that is reforming New York City’s very kooky property tax structure, where Con Ed pays more to City Hall than anyone else and then has to charge higher fees to customers.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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On the business front, Maybank wrote, there could be more rebates for corporate tax, as well as rebates on property tax for commercial properties.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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“Surtax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surtax. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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