tax
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Kieran Maguire, professor of football finance at the University of Liverpool, calls it "a Premier League tax".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
If you’re paying, say, $70,000 a year in income and property tax and other major expenses today, how much extra will you be paying when you move?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Having Schiff and Trump on the same side of this national tax credit is emblematic of the odd bedfellows the effort has gathered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
A car tax conviction against the Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan has been formally withdrawn after he was criminally prosecuted for not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra he did not own.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The price of loin of pork and the tax on beer.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Add property taxes, insurance, HOA fees, transportation, healthcare, etc., and see how your income measures up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“If the government says it’s going to raise taxes and cut spending to bring the deficit down, that’s one thing,” Kelly added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Burnham had earlier said he had already cut taxes, including VAT on energy bills and a cut in business rates for hospitality.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Depending on how the inheritance is structured, some of those funds could potentially be used to pay the income taxes associated with Roth conversions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
In other words, there needed to be an official estimate of the specific amount each state would have “assumed” and then be obliged to pay in federal taxes before the vote on assumption occurred.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"As finance minister I will not present a tax under which sugar-free drinks are taxed," Klingbeil, reportedly a big Coke Zero fan, told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Neuhardenberg, outside Berlin.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The distributions are taxed at ordinary-income rates, not the lower ones for long-term capital gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He suggested the government should increase the income tax threshold so workers earning minimum wage weren't taxed.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
To be sure, there are pitfalls to plan for like the “kiddie tax,” whereby unearned income above a certain amount is taxed at the parents’ rate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook’s indignant stare so taxed me with it.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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It added that going home early is called an "early shove" in the aviation industry and is considered an informal perk for staff, sometimes offered after especially taxing shifts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
First, AI data centers’ power demands can be incredibly taxing on power systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Fundamentally, what makes a legislature powerful is its control over taxing and spending, the power of the purse.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Perhaps the answer could be some combination of taxing gains at death and taxing inheritances under the federal income tax, as recently advocated by my colleague Ray Madoff.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
To her surprise, he was complaining about it, commenting that he found it taxing, found the culture repressed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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