WordNet
tax hike
n. the amount by which taxes are increased; "a tax increase of 15 percent" [syn: tax-increase, tax boost]
Usage examples of "tax hike".
Pereira running all over town preaching for a sales tax hike and warning that Metro is going broke.
Voters were largely willing to forgive the tax hike on upper income families, but not a gas tax that hit the blue-collar worker in his wallet.
If Ailes had written a letter recommending a tax hike, a new hate-crimes law, or going easy on the terrorists, I assume the Times would not have accused Ailes of showing a conservative bias.
He also said that he had made a mistake in signing the deficit-reduction bill with its gas-tax hike and that, if reelected, he’.