How to Use tax base in a Sentence

tax base

noun

• But the biggest boost for the town is the 2.94% increase in the tax base.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• The tax base increased by nearly 4% last year, the ninth year of growth.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The idea, Hill said, is to invest in a stagnant area and expand the tax base in the long run.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2022
• The village lacked much of a commercial tax base to help pay the bills.
  — At A Great Price, ProPublica, 15 May 2020
• The plant provides about 28 percent of Oak Park Heights’ tax base.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• The scale of such an operation cannot fall to any one city's tax base.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Its tax base shrinking, by 1975 the city could not pay its bills or service its debt.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Specifically, the township is a small fraction of the tax base for the area.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• To broaden the tax base, the proposal would extend the sales tax to a number of services.
  — Bruce Schreiner, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022
• The key to solving that problem is expanding the tax base.
  — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• If the new home is worth more than the old home, the difference in market values will be added to the old home’s tax base.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• However, the utility still counts for about 8% of the city’s tax base.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
• Downtown has emptied out, posing grave threats to the city tax base.
  — Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Doing so would ensure that the tax base keeps pace with demands on the public purse.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• But by then white flight had devastated the city’s tax base.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Lee noted that growth in the tax base relieved pressure on the new budget.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 7 May 2021
• But if the tax base itself is a ridiculously small fraction of the wealth, that’s not going to work.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• Killing the tax break is a key part of a larger movement this year to broaden the state’s tax base and lower tax rates.
  — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
• The commercial tax base will grow, and the economy thrive.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020
• Without industry to prop up the tax base, the county couldn’t come up with that kind of money.
  — Andy Miller, ajc, 31 Dec. 2021
• But without a tax base to pay for its move, the tribe sought federal money.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
  — Campbell Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by, and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
  — Campbell Robertson Jared Hamilton, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• Following that principle will broaden the tax base and, in the end, enable the city to best help the people who need it the most.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Since the 1980s, the city has suffered from a dwindling tax base amid population loss.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Adding new housing to the synagogue property could boost the city’s tax base, Rosen said.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 28 June 2022
• Trombley said the project could add to the local tax base that pays for Girdwood’s roads and drainage services, police, fire and parks.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
• The revenue generated will exceed the cost of bond payments and boost the tax base, Hart said.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 24 May 2021
• The tax base shrinks, and infrastructure deteriorates along with schools.
  — German Lopez, New York Times, 25 July 2024
• And there’s an ironic twist: As Europe’s population ages, many countries need immigrant workers to provide the tax base to pay for government services and sustain growth.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024