How to Use payroll tax in a Sentence

payroll tax

noun
  • One option would be to raise the payroll tax to make up the difference.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • How close will the Giants get to the payroll tax threshold?
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • First, there was no payroll tax in the year before the 2026 launch.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Separate payroll tax funds right away.
    — Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The top 6% of earners continued to have wages above the payroll tax cap.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Oregon’s program is funded by a payroll tax of 1% on gross wages.
    — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Factor that in, and their effective payroll tax rate is about 1%.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The rest will be covered by a new payroll tax shared by employers and employees.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025
  • That’s what the payroll tax being considered in Springfield would do.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • For instance, some advocates have pushed to eliminate the income cap on the payroll tax.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • The program is financed by a payroll tax paid by employers and employees.
    — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Every year since, the payroll tax revenue has not been enough to cover all the benefits paid to current retirees.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Rather than repay the loan, the state allowed a federal payroll tax hike to kick in, slowly reducing the debt.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
  • Rather than repay the loan, the state allowed a federal payroll tax hike to kick in, slowly reducing the debt.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • In Vermont, a payroll tax on employers funds child care subsidies.
    — Morgan Lee, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Both the employee and the employer would have to contribute toward this payroll tax.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • In Vermont, a payroll tax on employers funds child-care subsidies.
    — Morgan Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • For households with income of $1 million or more, only about 25% was subject to the payroll tax.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • When benefit payments exceed payroll tax income, the program relies on the trust funds to help make up the shortfall.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • When benefit payments exceed payroll tax income, the program relies on the trust funds to help make up the shortfall.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • And Obama temporarily cut the payroll tax rate by about fifteen percent.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Washington state's first-in-the-nation long-term care payroll tax will go into effect on July 1.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 29 June 2023
  • The damage caused by jacking up the payroll tax to the level required to restore solvency isn’t worth the benefit.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Another option is to raise the payroll tax rate slightly, which could also cover some of the solvency issues.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • If scrapping the payroll tax is too much of a political challenge, then second best would be to keep the payroll tax and eliminate the cap.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The provision was repealed in 1950, when the payroll tax rate finally rose.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The program is funded by a payroll tax increase split between employers and employees.
    — Riley Moser, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The program is funded by a payroll tax increase split between employers and employees.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2026
  • After that, just 83% of benefits will be covered by payroll tax revenue and other income sources.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 June 2026
  • One way the city has proposed making up the gap is with a payroll tax passed in 2020, which targets the city’s largest companies.
    — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023

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