How to Use surtax in a Sentence

surtax

noun
  • Judge John Hannah hewed to the letter of the law in reviewing the surtax.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Another major proposal in the bill is a surtax of up to 8% on the very wealthy.
    Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The surtaxes were removed for the 1984 tax year as the economy began to turn around.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The repeal of the surtax would be immediate, as opposed to being phased out in the coming years.
    Martha C. White, NBC News, 8 May 2017
  • Biden may call for increasing the top capital gains tax to 39.6 percent, plus the surtax, sources told NBC News.
    NBC News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • One of the new proposals in the framework is a surtax on the wealthiest Americans.
    Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This one would only levy a surtax on incomes—rather than the unrealized gains—of the ultra-rich.
    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • So yes, some one-time millionaires would be among the less than 1 percent of residents who would be subject to the surtax.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Their plan would also add a 3% surtax on income above $5 million.
    Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The House Ways and Means Committee tax bill included a rule that would apply the surtax to that business income.
    Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Bay State ballots in November will give voters the choice to place a 4% surtax on incomes above $1 million, bringing the top rate to 9% from 5%.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
  • In other words, once the teachers collected their surtax of 3.5%, the state would only get to take another 1%.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2021
  • The first item on the agenda was the multimillionaire-surtax bill, which was expected to be introduced in the House.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Johnson said, noting out a 3.8% surtax on investment income that could be left in place.
    Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • This surtax applies only to the amount of net investment income above those thresholds.
    Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Using an insurance surtax to pay for disasters is a strategy that is already in use, in a sense.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • More recently, the stock market in 2013 seemed unfazed by a capital-gains tax increase and the addition of a surtax tied to the Affordable Care Act.
    Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
  • One big difference: That bill would have set a 10 percentage point surtax on income in excess of $2 million.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The House panel's bill also includes a 3% surtax on the adjusted incomes of people making more than $5 million a year.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The surtax passed narrowly in a 2020 referendum that sought to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for public schools.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The bill follows past attempts in Olympia to boost wildfire funding with a surtax on home insurance premiums.
    Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Capital gains income would also still be subject to a 3.8 percent surtax that helps fund the Affordable Care Act.
    New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The surtax would apply equally to wages, for which the top tax rate is 37%, and investment income, including capital gains, for which taxes max out at 20% for long-term gains.
    Tommy Beer, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • For example, the Senate, but not the House, is proposing to use $100 million of money raised from a new surtax on the state’s highest earners to supplement local road and bridge repair aid.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • The proposal also would impose a 3% surtax on incomes over $5 million.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The three major individual tax changes are: A new income surtax.
    Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • This surtax applies only to the amount of net investment income above those thresholds, which aren’t indexed for inflation.
    Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The state added a 4% surtax to the 5% individual income tax rate for annual income above $1 million.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • As part of the budget proposal, Mr. Jaitley said the government would levy a surtax that would raise about $1.7 billion a year specifically for health care programs.
    New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The Fair Share Amendment would impose a 4 percent surtax on personal income above $1 million.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021

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