How to Use surtax in a Sentence

surtax

noun
  • It’s paid for through the 4% surtax on high earners.
    — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Their plan would also add a 3% surtax on income above $5 million.
    — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Another major proposal in the bill is a surtax of up to 8% on the very wealthy.
    — Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • This one would only levy a surtax on incomes—rather than the unrealized gains—of the ultra-rich.
    — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Judge John Hannah hewed to the letter of the law in reviewing the surtax.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Future of condo loan program Funding for the loans comes from the county surtax.
    — Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
  • This surtax applies only to the amount of net investment income above those thresholds.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Van Hollen's millionaire surtax would levy new rates above existing taxes on the rich.
    — Jeff Stein The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The repeal of the surtax would be immediate, as opposed to being phased out in the coming years.
    — Martha C. White, NBC News, 8 May 2017
  • The tax is a surtax on individual property for the wealthy on their second homes.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So yes, some one-time millionaires would be among the less than 1 percent of residents who would be subject to the surtax.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Using an insurance surtax to pay for disasters is a strategy that is already in use, in a sense.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The surtaxes were removed for the 1984 tax year as the economy began to turn around.
    — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • One of the new proposals in the framework is a surtax on the wealthiest Americans.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This surtax has brought in more money every year since 2023, more than $6 billion in total.
    — Senator Ed Markey, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Van Hollen would slap a surtax on every dollar of income over $1 million, which would pay for the tax cuts for lower incomes.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • One of the fights was over a 1% surtax that applies to passive investment income in excess of $1 million.
    — Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The proposal includes a surtax on high incomes, a wealth tax on large financial assets, and a tax on passive income.
    — Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The payroll surtax could rise from the current $126 per employee to as high as $420.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The bill follows past attempts in Olympia to boost wildfire funding with a surtax on home insurance premiums.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But critics have argued the surtax has led to an exodus of high earners from Massachusetts.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
  • The surtax would apply not only to wage income but also to capital gains and other investment income.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The outflow of residents to other states also predates the surtax and reflects other factors such as high housing costs.
    — Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The first item on the agenda was the multimillionaire-surtax bill, which was expected to be introduced in the House.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Advertisement Disney and her allies want a surtax on incomes over $1 million.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • This is a similar split to past years, and tends to even out as lawmakers later in the year take up a supplemental budget to allocate surplus surtax funds.
    — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The higher the taxpayer’s MAGI, the higher the surtax is.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The House Ways and Means Committee tax bill included a rule that would apply the surtax to that business income.
    — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The surtax passed narrowly in a 2020 referendum that sought to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for public schools.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The state has also invested heavily in recent years in literacy initiatives for early readers, buoyed by the surtax on high earners.
    — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026

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