How to Use payroll tax in a Sentence

payroll tax

noun
  • To pay for it, the state instituted a new payroll tax of 0.44%.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
  • This brings the total Medicare payroll tax rate paid by these households to 3.8%.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • One way the city has proposed making up the gap is with a payroll tax passed in 2020, which targets the city’s largest companies.
    Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Oregon’s program is funded by a payroll tax of 1% on gross wages.
    oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Factor that in, and their effective payroll tax rate is about 1%.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • As a fraction of the total amount of money collected through the payroll tax, the funding gap is about 3.5 percent.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The payroll tax should apply to all work income, period.
    Gerald Scorse, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Biden would increase the top rate of the Medicare payroll tax and the net investment income tax to 5% for those high-income taxpayers.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Raising the retirement age, expanding the payroll tax: what are the options?
    Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Every year since, the payroll tax revenue has not been enough to cover all the benefits paid to current retirees.
    Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The damage caused by jacking up the payroll tax to the level required to restore solvency isn’t worth the benefit.
    Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • If scrapping the payroll tax is too much of a political challenge, then second best would be to keep the payroll tax and eliminate the cap.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Workers bore the burden of the payroll tax increases and higher-income retirees bore the burden of the tax on benefits.
    Andrew Rettenmaier, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • Washington state's first-in-the-nation long-term care payroll tax will go into effect on July 1.
    Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 29 June 2023
  • Critics blasted the decision by Elon Musk, noting the city in 2011 approved a payroll tax break that saved the company millions.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The largest cut, which would yield about two-thirds of the total pledged relief, involves reducing an existing state payroll tax from 0.5% to 0.4% of a worker’s gross earnings.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The program, which will go into effect in 2026, will be funded by a payroll tax shared between workers and employers.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Another option is to raise the payroll tax rate slightly, which could also cover some of the solvency issues.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • At the time, state regulators said the payroll tax could eventually rise to 0.88%, a figure often cited by opponents of the tax.
    Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The ruling erased the 1.5 percent payroll tax for companies that moved into certain Mid-Market buildings.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The measure exempts tips from federal income tax, but not from the payroll tax that funds Social Security and part of Medicare.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Retirement incomes are too low and labor is already heavily taxed, and the payroll tax is regressive.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Cutting another 2 percentage points off the main rate of national insurance — a payroll tax, and Hunt’s preferred next step — would cost about £9 billion.
    Joe Mayes, Fortune Europe, 20 May 2024
  • Thirty-year tax The current version of the bill would allow MTC to place on the ballot a sales tax, payroll tax, property tax or vehicle registration surcharge lasting up to 30 years.
    Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
  • Trump does not have the authority to end the payroll tax, and the former president also has a history of opposing student loan forgiveness.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Kamala Harris could also be talking about the idea of raising the social security payroll tax to a higher earnings limit.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Social Security is financed by a payroll tax that is paid by both employers and employees.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
  • There have been other instances of tax reductions distributed through payroll tax reductions, and of course checks simply mailed to tax payers as during the Covid epidemic.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Indeed, the program today faces important funding problems, many of them traceable to Roosevelt’s insistence on a payroll tax.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • To be in those categories your earnings are often at or near the annual maximum income subject to the Social Security payroll tax.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024

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