How to Use tax base in a Sentence

tax base

noun
  • Our tax base is stronger than ever.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • To treat this savings as a fresh tax base is to tax the same dollar twice.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
  • The tax base increased by nearly 4% last year, the ninth year of growth.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The village lacked much of a commercial tax base to help pay the bills.
    — At A Great Price, ProPublica, 15 May 2020
  • The scale of such an operation cannot fall to any one city's tax base.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Downtown has emptied out, posing grave threats to the city tax base.
    — Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • The pitch was to expand the local tax base and bring jobs to people in the area.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Even if those issues could be addressed, the tax base would not remain fixed.
    — Martha E. Stark, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Our tax base is going to be declining.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But there may not be a big enough tax base there to cover the cost of rebuilding the dam.
    — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Lee noted that growth in the tax base relieved pressure on the new budget.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 7 May 2021
  • But without a tax base to pay for its move, the tribe sought federal money.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • Doing so would ensure that the tax base keeps pace with demands on the public purse.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This can be done with long-range planning and a commitment to keeping the tax base low.
    — Jay Rohe, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Previously, the state charged a sales tax based on the prices consumers pay.
    — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Which means the county, and others like it, see their potential tax base shrink.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2019
  • And that tax base depends on a thriving economy.
    — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • The hit to the tax base of Gulf fishing towns will be even worse for 2019.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The idea, Hill said, is to invest in a stagnant area and expand the tax base in the long run.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • That is a massive chunk of our tax base that isn’t helping to pay for snow plowing, police, or parks.
    — John Mannillo, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
    — Campbell Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Its tax base shrinking, by 1975 the city could not pay its bills or service its debt.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Specifically, the township is a small fraction of the tax base for the area.
    — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • If the new development there spurs others to build nearby, the tax base will grow.
    — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2019
  • However, the utility still counts for about 8% of the city’s tax base.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Annexing our states would increase their tax base and reduce the need for customs there.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by, and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
    — Campbell Robertson Jared Hamilton, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Without industry to prop up the tax base, the county couldn’t come up with that kind of money.
    — Andy Miller, ajc, 31 Dec. 2021
  • In a market as mobile as high-end real estate, even modest shifts can erode the tax base.
    — Martha E. Stark, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Killing the tax break is a key part of a larger movement this year to broaden the state’s tax base and lower tax rates.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021

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