How to Use pretax in a Sentence

pretax

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• Shop will match cash donations and 25% of pretax sales.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 31 July 2022
• We're told that no more than 50 will be built, with a pretax price of $4.1 million at current exchange rates.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
• The Fool responds: An old rule of thumb has been to sock away 10% of your pretax income, but that doesn’t serve everyone equally well.
  — Dallas News, 12 June 2022
• In the case of the Asphalt Grave Vault Company, which was part of the plastic-armor outfit, the pretax profit was an egregious forty-eight per cent.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Putting all your money in a pretax option could mean facing a whopping tax bill later.
  — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• And yet on the other hand, 51% of the respondents reported an increase in pretax profit margins, up from 47% a year ago.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The country accounted for 37% of the company’s new car sales last year and 15% of the pretax profit from its passenger-car business.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
• By some estimates, the firm earned roughly $900 million in pretax profits from the vaccine during the first quarter.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• The company stood by its earlier forecast of $9 billion to $11 billion in pretax profit for the year.
  — Nora Eckert, wsj.com, 2 May 2023
• For this year, Ford expects Ford Blue to post a $7 billion pretax profit, modestly better than last year.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Ford has also estimated that the strike cost it about $1.3 billion in pretax profits.
  — Marick Masters, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Even before the pandemic, one in four rental households was paying more than half its pretax income on rent, while homelessness was on the rise.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Group said pretax profit for the first half of fiscal 2024 rose on the back of a resilient consumer demand but warned that outlook remains uncertain.
  — Michael Susin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• Ocado on Tuesday backed its full-year guidance after revenue rose and profitability improved in the first half of the year, despite a widened pretax loss.
  — Christian Moess Laursen, WSJ, 18 July 2023
• The restructuring actions announced this year will result in pretax charges of as much as $900 million, the company said.
  — Ryan Beene, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• That would translate into roughly $900 million in pretax vaccine profits in the first quarter.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• Contributing on pretax basis to a 401(k) throughout the year on your paychecks would lower your gross income and overall taxable income for a year.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• The company still expects pretax income of $13 billion to $15 billion.
  — Tom Krisher, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
• For qualified annuities, or those funded with pretax dollars, the IRS charges income tax on withdrawals taken from the account.
  — Lori Ioannou, WSJ, 4 June 2022
• According to the publication, revenue figures are pretax and fees for agents, managers and lawyers are not deducted.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• General Motors on Tuesday reported a pretax profit decline of 6% to $3.8 billion in the first quarter.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
• On the face of it, Credit Suisse had probably its best-ever quarter, with pretax profit equivalent to roughly $14.4 billion.
  — Stephen Wilmot, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• General Motors on Tuesday reported pretax profit gains of $1 billion in the fourth quarter to $3.79 billion.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2023
• The segment dubbed Platform Solutions racked up more than $1.2 billion in pretax losses in last year’s first nine months, with the drop accelerating every quarter, the bank reported.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The Detroit automaker reported pretax income for a first quarter at $4.4 billion.
  — Tom Krisher, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Nationally, prisoners are paid a pretax hourly average wage of 52 cents, and in some states nothing, while producing billions of dollars in good and services for prisons, according to the ACLU.
  — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• Also, pretax profits at Ford's credit arm — $1.6 billion last quarter — will likely fall by $1 billion from the first half as values of vehicles returning from leases drop closer to normal.
  — Tom Krisher, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• Prescott’s total of $87 million in pretax earnings also includes $12 million from endorsements.
  — Brett Knight, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• For many scam victims, the big tax bills come after they are tricked into taking large distributions from their pretax retirement accounts and sending their savings to criminals, often overseas.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• For years, businesses generally could deduct all of their interest expenses from their U.S. pretax income.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024