How to Use tax-exempt in a Sentence

tax-exempt

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  • In exchange for the voluntary payments, the city agrees not to challenge the colleges’ tax-exempt status.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Why should one income source be tax-exempt but not another?
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The suit was dropped, but Synanon could not regain public favor, closing down after the IRS revoked the group’s tax-exempt status in 1982.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Advertisement Never mind that the idea of making tips tax-exempt has flaws.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Court records say the conversion was done solely to get the tax-exempt funding from the Arizona authority.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • The land becomes tax-exempt and the developer agrees to reserve at least 50% of the apartment units for people making up to 80% of the area’s median income.
    Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, the temple persuaded the IRS to recognize it not only as a tax-exempt religion but as a proper church.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The project also called for public support in the form of about $200 million in tax-exempt bond financing as well as a Brownfield future tax-capture.
    Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Ferguson’s fight drew media attention and even a threat to revoke the DAR’s tax-exempt status.
    Corinne Dorsey, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • The project mainly will be funded by tax-exempt municipal bonds.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Then in 2019, Sanford Health — a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital system — acquired the nursing home.
    Harris Meyer, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Ptolemy declared the temples tax-exempt to curry their favor.
    Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Under the statute, tax-exempt properties must fill out forms explaining their non-profit work.
    Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • Any income generated by the LLC would flow up to the charity, which being tax-exempt did not pay any taxes on that income.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Clothing, backpacks and school supplies have to be under $100 to be tax-exempt, and delivery and transportation charges are counted as part of the total sales price.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Many items meet tax-exempt status — with certain price qualifiers.
    Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The club, a nonprofit corporation, lost its tax-exempt status in 2010.
    Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The federal government is spending $3 billion on the project, as well as offering access to $3.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But its low rates and its tax-exempt status give it competitive advantages.
    Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • The tax-equivalent yield calculation provides a simple framework to compare a tax-exempt bond to a taxable bond.
    Chris Gunster, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The donors have not been released, and the organization, which has been tax-exempt just since January, has not yet filed documentation with the IRS that shows all of the people involved.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Portable generators priced under $3,000 are the most expensive item on the tax-exempt list.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Related: Hospitals need to earn their tax-exempt status The natural answer is their boards.
    Sanjay Kishore and Suhas Gondi, STAT, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Therefore, if the collectives aren’t tax-exempt, the donations collected wouldn’t be either.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The outlet compiled the list based on the Internal Revenue Service's Form 990 for tax-exempt organizations.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • If accounting for the gains in investments made by charities themselves, which are also tax-exempt, the losses exceed $110 billion.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Preserve Calavera is a grass-roots, tax-exempt local organization that works to protect open space in northern San Diego County.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The state statute in the middle of this controversy governs the procedure through which tax-exempt status is granted for any organization.
    Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • To preserve the gold’s tax-exempt status, it must be kept in a depository recognized by the Internal Revenue Service.
    Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some $45 billion of tax-exempt bonds were issued in September and supply has remained strong in October as issuers pull forward deals before voters head to the polls, Mukherjee wrote.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024

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