How to Use tax shelter in a Sentence

tax shelter

noun
  • The tax shelter last year was stripped from New York’s tax code.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Al Sheid was an investment banker who used wine grapes as a tax shelter.
    — Matt Kettmann, SFChronicle.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The rest comes from investors, attracted by what amounts to a tax shelter.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2012
  • McPhee personally did not sell the tax shelter for a fee.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • A day may come when the fallout from the tax shelter scandal at the turn of millennium is no more.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • He is also charged with falsifying tax returns; those of the tax shelter's clients and his own.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • As a tax shelter, the plans are ideal for leaving investments undisturbed for many years.
    — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 15 Dec. 2023
  • For investors, Section 181 tax shelter schemes are easy to spot.
    — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This built, in essence, a tax shelter for homeowners that’s lasted half a century.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2024
  • People who are buying homes for primary residence buy to own a home,and not for a tax shelter.
    — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is the same analysis that anybody who participates in a tax shelter goes through.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Harris also proposed a tax on stock trades and called for an end to foreign tax shelters as part of her plan to pay for the proposal.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2019
  • Will Congress end a tax shelter that has cost the Treasury untold billions?
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Unless, of course, the Rauners and Pritzkers hide their money in offshore tax shelters.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Surely, that would prevent the superrich from gaming the system to use Roths as tax shelters.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 24 June 2021
  • First, combining a low tax rate on capital gains with a high tax rate on interest payments is central to many tax shelters.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
  • They are accused of assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns on behalf of clients who used the tax shelter.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Second, before the on the merger had even fully dried, the sky fell on the microcaptive tax shelter sector.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • McPhee explained that clients could avoid paying taxes on up to 98% of their income by using the tax shelter.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • These limitations are intended to prevent abuse of the benefit as a tax shelter.
    — Brian Boswell, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The tax rules encouraged investors to do all sorts of things with their money that did nothing to build the economy, but rather only made sense as tax shelters.
    — Steve Wamhoff, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
  • All in all, this is a good bill, and it can be fully paid for by clawing back a Covid-era payroll-tax credit that has deformed into a tax shelter.
    — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And Belgian’s tax shelter is being used to set up co-productions with Ukrainian creatives.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
  • More than two hundred taxpayers nationwide purchased the abusive tax shelter.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • More than two hundred taxpayers nationwide purchased the abusive tax shelter.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Hundreds of billions of dollars are stored in these legal tax shelters, called trusts, investigative journalists have found.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The same goes for certain captive managers who have utterly no idea how to run a real captive but all their business comes from selling tax shelter captives.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • That then belies that the captive insurance company is a bona fide enterprise risk management tool but is instead a tax shelter.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • In 1972, investment banker Al Scheid decided to get into wine grapes as a tax shelter for his wealth.
    — Matt Kettmann, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • In that case, the allegedly abusive tax shelter would have saved Bristol Myers nearly $1 billion.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021

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