How to Use excise tax in a Sentence

excise tax

noun
  • An excise tax on wind and solar projects was removed.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 1 July 2025
  • An excise tax or fee or whatever it’s called will be felt by those who pay the bills.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Alaska, whose state gasoline excise tax is 8 cents a gallon, is last.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 21 June 2024
  • There is no state that levies any sort of product-specific excise tax on tampons.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The excise tax had been a last-minute addition to the bill and was made public over the weekend.
    — Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 1 July 2025
  • Utah also passed an EV excise tax this year that will work out to about $3 for each full charge.
    — Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In addition to that excise tax and a 1-cent oil inspection fee, the state charges a gasoline use tax.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
  • Analyzed were sales and excise tax, property tax and income tax.
    — By Andrew Powell | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The state’s 36-cent-a-gallon excise tax remains in place, along with the federal gas tax.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • An excise tax gross-up payment from a company to an executive is rare.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • People who smoke in Maryland currently pay a $5-a-pack excise tax to the state.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The fund provides compensation from a small excise tax on vaccines.
    — Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Those whose job were funded by an excise tax on cigarettes, for example, said they were not called back to work over the weekend.
    — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Recreational sales would have been subjected to a 15% excise tax on top of the standard sales tax.
    — Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Congress could suspend the federal excise tax on fuel.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The excise tax on the buyout comes from law changes passed in December 2017.
    — Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • The first is a tax credit on up to 50% of franchise and excise tax liability.
    — Alessia Sandala, Nashville Tennessean, 14 July 2025
  • This portion of the excise tax revenue makes a direct impact in the communities where our licensees work and live.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Its sales and excise tax burden ranks 37th, while the property tax burden is 23rd.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 25 June 2024
  • The president also wants to quadruple a new excise tax on corporate stock buybacks under the new plan.
    — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Families are paid through a trust fund that’s funded by an excise tax on vaccine makers, so there’s a finite pot of money available.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The excise gross-up payment gives the executive enough additional cash so that they are left as if the excise tax never hit them.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • One option is to re-direct funds from the federal excise tax on sports betting to address a growing public health concern.
    — Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The California Senate approved a bill that would roll back an increase on the state’s cannabis excise tax rate.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The gas sales tax in the Hoosier State is set at 23 cents a gallon; the excise tax rate is 36 cents per gallon.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Unlike sales taxes, which rise when the price of the goods for sale goes up, an excise tax is a flat amount based on how much beer, wine or liquor the manufacturer produces.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The federal government charges an excise tax on guns, but California’s is the first such tax at the state level.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • The state’s 36-cent-a-gallon excise tax remained in place during the first suspension, along with the federal gas tax.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Then there's a 61-cent state excise tax and roughly 2 cents attributed to underground storage fees.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The gambling industry doesn’t like the excise tax to begin with, but it’s been in place for more than seventy years and likely isn’t going anywhere.
    — Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026

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