How to Use pretax in a Sentence

pretax

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  • Nearly 90% of the lowest-income households in the state spend over one-third of their pretax income on rent or mortgage payments.
    — Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Corporate giving has until now hovered around 1% of pretax profits.
    — Jon Bergdoll, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The new law also puts a new floor on corporate charitable donations at 1% of their pretax profits.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The previous projection was for $160 million in pretax charges.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The previous projection was for $160 million in pretax charges.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This entails changing pretax funds to Roth money, which comes with an upfront tax bill but has the benefit of tax-free withdrawals in retirement.
    — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Those accounts enable families to set aside up to $7,500 in pretax income for childcare expenses.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax IRA funds to a Roth IRA, which starts future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Those pretax funds will be subject to regular income taxes upon withdrawal, according to the Treasury guidance.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,jessica Dickler, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Those pretax funds will be subject to ordinary income taxes upon withdrawal, according to the Treasury guidance.
    — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • More than 87% of low-income Coloradans spend more than one-third of their pretax income on housing — a common benchmark for housing affordability.
    — Jennifer C. Greenfield, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to start tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fidelity recommends aiming for at least 15% of pretax income for retirement, including your employer match.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,kelli Grant, Cfp®, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The longest-ever government shutdown, in the fourth quarter, hit pretax United results by $250 million, the company said.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Most retirees must take RMDs from pretax retirement accounts starting at age 73 or face an IRS penalty.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The strategy transfers your pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to kickstart future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The company also expects to incur between $30 million and $35 million in pretax restructuring charges.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • The company also expects to incur between $30 million and $35 million in pretax restructuring charges.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Roth conversions transfer pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA, which kickstarts future tax-free growth.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This growth reflects the high pretax profits earned by corporations in 2024 and the trend toward corporations donating a higher share of pretax profits in recent years.
    — Christina Daniken, The Conversation, 24 June 2025
  • The company expects to complete its restructuring plan by the end of September, incurring pretax charges of $35 million to $45 million.
    — News Service Reports, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
  • One issue in limbo is Roth individual retirement account conversions, which are popular among younger retirees looking to trim pretax retirement account balances.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The growth in traditional pretax IRAs has largely been fueled by rollovers from employer retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, according to the findings.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • OxyChem represents almost 20% of Oxy’s total pretax income, bringing in more than $1 billion annually.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With no pretax savings, some retirees could miss future planning opportunities, such as Roth individual retirement account conversions during early retirement years.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That might involve qualified charitable distributions, or QCDs, which allow retirees to transfer funds from a pretax retirement account directly to a qualifying nonprofit.
    — Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The formula states that qualified employees get $1,000 per every $1 billion in annual earnings before interest and taxes, or pretax profits for North America.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2026
  • His simple idea — having employees contribute a portion of their pretax wages to company retirement plans and having their employers match those contributions with tax-deductible contributions — has exploded into a multitrillion-dollar industry.
    — Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For example, corporations generally donated less than 1% of pretax profits from 2004-2018.
    — Christina Daniken, The Conversation, 24 June 2025
  • That growth has been fueled by employer retirement account rollovers, such as 401(k) plans, with nearly 60% of pretax traditional IRAs including rollovers in 2024, the report found.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025

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