How to Use nontaxable in a Sentence

nontaxable

adjective
  • The case for treating these mansions as a nontaxable fringe benefit has always been weak.
    — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
  • The easiest way to convert such income to a nontaxable form is to move it into a Roth account.
    — Wendy Connick, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2017
  • If your case is fully nontaxable (say an auto accident in which you’re injured), that shouldn’t cause any tax problems.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The trick is to convert some, or all, of your taxable income to nontaxable income so that it's not factored into your combined income.
    — Wendy Connick, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The solution is for the state to allow all of the registers to distinguish a hot cup of bean soup (taxable) from a cold can of beans (nontaxable).
    — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The remainder was made up of retirement and nontaxable benefits.
    — Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 3 May 2017
  • The aid helps districts offset property tax revenue that is lost because of nontaxable federal land, such as a military base.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
  • After all, a property settlement in a divorce is clearly nontaxable.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Is there anything in the wings at the IRS that will provide some guidance as to the taxable or nontaxable (ha-ha) nature of that lump sum?
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Watching the yield differential between taxable and nontaxable bonds is a valuable practice the top one-percent investors do, or hire an expert to do.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • Any property that is converted from taxable to nontaxable by the university in the next six years will be covered under the commitment.
    — Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • People can receive nontaxable gifts or spend money on deductible business expenses, for example.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Because of the different contributions, withdrawals could also be a mix of taxable and nontaxable money.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,jessica Dickler, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Depending on the different kinds of contributions, withdrawals may contain a mix of taxable and nontaxable money.
    — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • The Senate’s passage of burn pits legislation last month on an 84-14 vote hit a snag over a line on nontaxable benefits.
    — Diego Areas Munhoz, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • For example, states such as Delaware are nontaxable, and often can draw the attention of first-time entrepreneurs, but doing so is not recommended.
    — Karla Dennis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Amounts less than $5,000 paid under a qualified plan are considered nontaxable benefits.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In addition, to remain nontaxable, the funds must be used to pay for medical expenses, such as doctor or hospital care, dental services and prescriptions.
    — Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News, 14 July 2017
  • Half of the city's real estate is made up of government buildings, educational facilities or hospitals -- all of which are nontaxable.
    — Jonathan Wynn, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The commission thought this left the taxable operating company with too little profit and the nontaxable partnership, which in this case didn't even have any employees, with too much profit.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • The money supports districts with nontaxable federal land, such as those on Native American reservations.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • That could change, as some states may eventually side with the federal government's decision to make the debt relief nontaxable, but borrowers may want to consult their tax preparers in the meantime, the group noted.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • For one thing, there's quite good authority that donations, gifts would continue to be nontaxable income to Harvard under section 102, simply as a gift.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • To determine if your benefit is taxable, add up your gross income, nontaxable interest income and half of your Social Security benefit.
    — Mark Miller, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • These are people who filed returns before mid-March, when the American Rescue Plan made some unemployment benefits nontaxable.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 10 June 2021
  • But the executive order cuts funding for reimbursements of nontaxable property and other payments by $67 million in New Haven.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The city envisioned a tax increment financing district that would generate new tax dollars, but McDonald said using nontaxable land at the center of such a proposal would doom the success of that goal from the start.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The county receives Payments in Lieu of Taxes funding from the federal government to offset property taxes lost from nontaxable federal lands.
    — Jack Armstrong, Wajeeha Kamal, Maya Moore and Shealyn Paulis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Twenty school districts in Wisconsin were expecting to receive payments this month for Impact Aid, a federal program that supports districts in places with nontaxable federal land.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The requirements don’t apply to nontaxable personal transactions such as birthday or holiday gifts, sharing the cost of a ride or meal, or paying a family member for a household bill, the IRS noted.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024

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