How to Use tax burden in a Sentence

tax burden

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  • The tax burden is now higher than at any time since the end of World War II.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The higher your income is, the lower the tax burden will be.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In his plan, Biden is overtly declaring that the wealthy ought to shoulder a heavier tax burden.
    — Chris Megerian and Josh Boak, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But Democrats say the governor’s plan shifts the tax burden off the wealthy and onto those with lower incomes.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But as time goes on, the faster rate of growth eventually overcomes the lower tax burden.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The tax burden is lowest in Alaska, which has no state income tax and whose sales and excise taxes rank 46th.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Other tech founders have left for cheaper cities with less of a tax burden and lower rents, such as Miami and Austin.
    — Trisha Thadani, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • Others spoke about the tax burden shift as a way to solve historical inequities.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Business groups have complained the exemptions Patrick is advocating for on homes shift more of the tax burden to them.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
  • Before his death in 1983, her dad came up with a plan to pass the team to McCaskey, his only living child, without saddling her with a heavy tax burden.
    — Ira Boudway, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • So do his promises of boosting pensions and relieving the tax burden.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Decreasing their tax burden in a free market would force them to lower rents to attract tenants.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • While income inequality in Guatemala is among the highest in Latin America, its tax burden is among the lowest and consumers bear the brunt of it.
    — Sandra Cuffe, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The 2023 tax burden, meanwhile, was higher than in the previous year but the company expects that pressure on earnings to ease in the future.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In 2024, Britain is heavily indebted (not least thanks to the pandemic and its legacy), the country’s tax burden is at a post-war high, and GDP growth is anemic.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 July 2024
  • All other things being equal, the fewer workers there are relative to the rest of the population, the higher the tax burden on each person who does work, and the lower the per capita output.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 May 2024
  • The financial services firm found California ranks 37th in the quality of state and local services and last in the country in per capita tax burden.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 29 May 2024
  • In all, his budget would essentially leave the state’s tax burden flat if all measures were adopted together.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Denmark’s total tax burden as a share of gross domestic product is also nearly twice as high as the American.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The upside of a high interest payment The standard deduction is a specific dollar amount set each year by the IRS that filers can use to reduce their tax burden.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • That means that middle- and lower-income workers shoulder a much bigger tax burden in funding Social Security than the 6% who earn above that amount.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • Americans have flocked to these accounts as a way to chase Bitcoin’s gains over the long term and to, hopefully, more rapidly grow a retirement nest egg while reducing their tax burden.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But that's a difficult message for an electorate already labouring under a tax burden now at its highest level since the Second World War.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
  • The tax burden refers to the property individual income, sales and excise tax as a share of personal income.
    — Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But without additional laws, some companies can find ways to reduce their tax burden below what’s allowed under the terms of the agreement.
    — Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • WalletHub’s report calculated what the tax burden would be on the median income earner across the country.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This continues a trend over the last 50 years of the state's tax burden decreasing, according to a new analysis by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
    — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That shifts the tax burden commercial and industrial property owners, as well as renters, Widenhouse said.
    — Jeff Amy, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Exemptions for homes used as primary residences can shift a greater tax burden to rental properties and businesses.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 2 June 2024
  • The state gasoline tax burden remains the highest in the nation, the federal Energy Information Administration said.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 21 June 2024

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