property tax

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Recent Examples of property tax That earlier proposal would have provided smaller property tax rebates to a significantly larger group of Hialeah’s roughly 32,100 homeowners. Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026 In nearby De Soto, the City Council approved $50 billion in bonds and a 10-year property tax abatement to support the $3 billion development. Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026 These risks can be mitigated through careful planning around key legal factors, including California corporate, probate, and community property laws, restrictions imposed by your business’s governing documents, and estate, income, and property tax exposure. Fennemore, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026 Council members in recent years have discussed other ways of bringing in more revenue, including by raising Houston’s property tax rate, which is the lowest of all big Texas cities. Abby Church, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for property tax
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Noun
  • The former provides an income tax credit for job creation, while the latter provides sales and tax refunds on the purchase of building materials.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The largest portion of the funding sought from CHFA is $35 million in low-income tax credits.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Aranda’s sixth-inning sac fly and Yandy Diaz’s eight-inning infield single tax Fried for two more runs.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The debt crisis is structural, rooted in decades of spending that outpaces revenue, and no single tax can undo that.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Akbar had already incorporated Hindus into the Mughal military and administrative system and abolished the jizyah (a poll tax historically levied on non-Muslims under Islamic law) as part of a policy of inclusion.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In 1964: The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited both Congress and any of the states from imposing a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections, was ratified.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Once Vasquez applies for funding, Hataway’s department will determine the state’s contribution based on the amount of withholding tax, sales tax and athlete and entertainer tax revenues generated by the team last year, a Kehoe spokesperson previously told The Star.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The incentives include sales and use tax refunds, qualifying investment tax credits and withholding tax credits.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 12 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Regarding tax cuts, the bill calls for exempting the sales tax on school supplies that would save taxpayers nearly $6 million.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • These activities bring tourism and economic activity to Folsom, increasing the city’s sales tax revenue.
    Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The various Indian state governments earn a big portion of their revenue from excise and value-added tax on alcoholic drinks.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Lord De La Warr paid $179,255 for it (including buyer’s premium and value-added tax) after it was originally estimated to go for between $54,000 and $81,000 by Summers Place Auctions.
    Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • This would have come as news to the Highland Scots who invaded England in 1745 or the Irish Whiteboys who terrorized landlords and tax collectors a few decades later.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The only element likely still in play is the potential ability for the Heat to claw back some or all of Terry’s 2025-26 salary, a factor that would not have an impact on the payroll, salary cap or luxury tax going forward.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Those drops, while beneficial for the population, aren’t great for sin tax revenues that depend on those behaviors.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • Signal Cleveland reports Council President Blaine Griffin and County Executive Chris Ronayne are in talks to raise the sin tax, which would require a change to state law.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Property tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/property%20tax. Accessed 4 May. 2026.

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