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Current Stealth Taxes include the taxation of Social Security benefits, the Medicare premium surtax, and the 3.8% net investment income tax.
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
When your income is high enough to trigger the surtax regularly, shifting some income investments to tax-exempt bonds instead of other income vehicles could both lower your MAGI and avoid or reduce the surtax.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
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Bob Carlson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
When your income is high enough to trigger the surtax regularly, shifting some income investments to tax-exempt bonds instead of other income vehicles could both lower your MAGI and avoid or reduce the surtax.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
The House budget chief pointed out to the audience that transportation is one of the business community’s main priorities — and later paraphrased former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino to weigh in on the business community’s complaints around the surtax and other Beacon Hill policies.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surtax
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Businesses are grappling with economic uncertainty and potentially higher costs caused by the Trump administration’s tariffs, among other conflicting forces.—
Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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Zoom out: The animosity among U.S. and Canadian leadership and Trump's looming threats of tariffs on Canadian products has spilled over into sporting events and shopping boycotts.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile: The Waffle House and some Chicago restaurants, including Wishbone and Cebu have added temporary egg surcharges to some dishes on their menus, WBEZ reports.—
Monica Eng,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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In one recent example of this, the diner chain Waffle House added a 50-cent surcharge to every egg sold to account for the rising costs, per the AP.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
12 Feb. 2025
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In addition to support for the work of these organizations, upland bird hunters pumped billions more dollars into private lands management, and their license sales and excise taxes paid on guns and ammunition have been the funding backbone for state wildlife agencies for more than a generation.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Most alcohol taxes are flat-rate excise taxes that haven’t been adjusted for inflation in decades.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
13 Jan. 2025
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Some taxpayers, the IRS said, may receive their income tax refunds a few days earlier.—
Susan Tompor,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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The new tax benefit for mothers of two or three (mothers of four are already exempt from income tax) will be phased in gradually from January.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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But there has to be a better way to do this and part of that is reforming New York City’s very kooky property tax structure, where Con Ed pays more to City Hall than anyone else and then has to charge higher fees to customers.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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On the business front, Maybank wrote, there could be more rebates for corporate tax, as well as rebates on property tax for commercial properties.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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Prior to council tax, there was poll tax which was so wildly unpopular, people began rioting across England.—
Tanyel Mustafa,
refinery29.com,
12 Jan. 2024
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But a Venezuelan passport costs more than $300, a price that amounts to a poll tax because few migrants can afford them.—
John Otis,
NPR,
16 Apr. 2024
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“Surtax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surtax. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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