How to Use remit in a Sentence

remit

1 of 2 verb
  • Payment can be remitted by check.
  • The governor remitted the remainder of her life sentence.
  • Please remit $1,000 upon receipt of this letter.
  • When the house is sold, what’s left is remitted back to the seller.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Very few taxpayers would remit wealth taxes, but many taxpayers would pay the price.
    — Aaron Kliegman, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Amazon collects sales tax in every state that charges one and remits it to the states, which is nearly every state.
    — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The platforms would collect the taxes and remit them to the hosts, who would have to pay the county’s tax collector.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • The site collects from clients are remits payment to you when jobs are complete, minus the site’s 20% fee.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Short-term rentals also have to collect and remit the city's 2% hotel, motel and restaurant sales tax.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The balance of the tax collection then would be remitted to Brook Park.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Hotels are required to remit the tax revenue to the city on a monthly or quarterly basis.
    — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
  • Since Airbnb will collect and remit taxes, the new agreement streamlines the process for both the hosts and the county.
    — Julia Sclafani, sacbee, 20 June 2018
  • The provider collected the tax from the sender and remitted it quarterly to the secretary.
    — Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The county filed motions asking the court to grant the officers a new trial and to remit the jury verdict.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • If rentals are registered on websites like Airbnb, the website collects and remits the taxes to the state.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 14 June 2019
  • Smaller online retailers that have so far escaped the tax also would have to collect and remit sales taxes.
    — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, the six other companies that were hired to perform testing at the nursing homes did not remit any money to the state.
    — Dave Altimari and Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • If a customer books you, the site will collect and remit payment to you when the job is done, minus a 20% fee, just like Fiverr.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Dispensaries must charge a sales tax to recreational marijuana customers and remit that tax to the state, county and city.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Escheatment is the process of reporting and remitting unclaimed property to the states.
    — New York Daily News Special Sections, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The governor has clemency power and can grant pardons and remit fines with the approval of just two members of his Cabinet.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The implication, of course, is that there will be earnings in the future and the Fed will remit those earnings to the Treasury.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • These duties are remitted directly to the CBP.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Online shoppers who reside in one of the 45 states that have a sales tax should have been reporting and remitting those levies to their state of residence.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • The tens of billions that are remitted annually add more to Mexico’s economy than both tourism and oil.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Airbnb has collected this tax from guests since October 2014 and remits it directly to the city.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Instead, the audit found, the state was remitting fee revenue to the general fund and using more than half the money for purposes unrelated to the board.
    — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
  • Whether the tax applies to some digital transfers is unclear, as are the mechanics for collecting, calculating, and remitting the tax.
    — Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Payroll companies will determine how much is owed for federal, state and local taxes and can remit payments directly from your checking account.
    — Forbes Money Team, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • However, some utilities have entered into payment-in-lieu-of-tax agreements or remit a percentage of their revenues back to local government.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2026

remit

2 of 2 noun
  • France was added to her remit this year.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That's been its rough remit for some time.
    — John Burek, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The black-tie remit still left plenty of room to play.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s Christian and his team’s remit.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • But your remit in your new job is larger than just terrorism.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The board’s remit has expanded over time.
    — Caroline Wagner, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Her remit is one that requires not just range, but agility and empathy.
    — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her remit is extremely broad — anything is fair game for her critic's quill.
    — Rhoda Feng, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But within that broad remit, the merits on which winners are judged appear to be evolving.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This approach still took the council well outside its remit and satisfied no one.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Lunar launches will by no means be the only projects in Isaacman’s remit.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The remit of rock and roll is constantly expanding and evolving.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2022
  • Her remit will include both off-screen and on-screen representation.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • All that desolation might get old if Sub Zero didn’t get so much mileage out of its somber remit.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Michelin Guide is expanding its remit once again, this time to Asia.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • Now antitrust enforcement is back to a narrow remit around Big Tech.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Part of his remit was to inject some levity into Carter’s speeches.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
  • This might have solved Mings’ issues and helped McGinn to be more comfortable in his remit.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Changing the law is far beyond the remit of Sung and his researchers at the university.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Part of that remit means saving every healthy and treatable pet and requires the help of people like Comer.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • But these steps went way beyond the Fed’s monetary-policy remit.
    — Jeb Hensarling, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In other cases, the remit is to uncover an unknown, or identify a bit player ready to step up to the lead spot.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Woodson’s more immediate concern will be Maryland, a team with strong guards and a remit to drive the ball.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Stay true to your roots and keep that handle intact even as your remit expands to podcasting and socializing.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Castings, visuals and tech, plus generally making it even more of a global brand are part of his remit.
    — Jessica Bumpus, ELLE, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The pandemic era has expanded the remit of corporate boards of directors in a big way.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The pub is only really fun for me when things get rowdy, which is the exact remit of a club, and clubs already exist elsewhere.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But Salke believes the studio’s approach fits Amazon’s broad remit.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But, with this ultra-specific remit, the ideal casting became clear.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The latter is the remit of public health rather than medicine, and has long been underfunded and undervalued.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022

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