How to Use tax base in a Sentence

tax base

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Right now is not a good time to increase or diversify our tax base.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Larger cities have a greater tax base revenue, which can be used to offer higher salaries, Woodruff said.
    — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The project could lead to a larger local tax base to help pay for those services, city officials say.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
  • About 90 miles south of Richmond, Ebony sits on the edge of Lake Gaston and is a haven for second homes that serve as an important tax base.
    — Michael Corkery Andrea Bruce, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Many families left Compton in the late 80s and 90s, depleting the tax base even further.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Not long after that, White residents began to flee the city, shrinking its tax base.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • That said, the country is in the middle of a massive demographic shift that puts its tax base in danger.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The debate is not about whether to develop the land, with Arte Moreno’s company assuming the costs and the city boosting its tax base.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • New York has a top-heavy income-tax base where the highest-earning 2% of filers account for about half of revenue.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Countries also have to agree on the tax base, that is which income or assets will be subject to the minimum tax.
    — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • Andrew said this project is a way to keep the land productive, increase the tax base and also give the land back in 40 years for another use.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The city struggled to expand its tax base and maintain its public services.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In tax terms, this is an effect not unlike that of the Laffer curve—a lower rate may increase revenue because of growth in the tax base.
    — Tomas J. Philipson, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The new bureaucracies would have to keep track of the inevitable exceptions to the tax introduced by politicians that would erode the tax base.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Others did not want to talk about the companies that support the tax base and employ their friends and family.
    — Kathleen Flynn, ProPublica, 20 May 2022
  • Increasing the tax base is essential because the city is currently bound by the state’s tax caps.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In many ways, Highland Park is the story of what happens to a city after a booming industry — and its tax base — leaves.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2021

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