What is "tax base"

Usage examples of "tax base".

When young householders took their growing wealth and tax base with them from the cities to the suburbs, they created a economic, generational, and cultural division between them and the cities.

Now the actual mechanism for broadening the tax base includes a flat twenty-percent rate on earned income, interest income excluded—.

Now the actual mechanism for broadening the tax base includes a flat twenty-percent rate on earned income, interest income excluded&mdash.

And as the tax base of the West stagnates and populations climb (though more slowly) in the third world, foreign aid will make even less of a difference in coming decades.

They lived out in Indian Hills or on Mockingbird Valley Road near the Louisville Country Club, and they owned every bank in the city -- along with both newspapers, all the radio stations that white folks took seriously, and at least half the major distilleries and tobacco companies that funded the municipal tax base.

Their opposition stems, in the main, from language authorizing the government to seize produce, grains, and butchered meats in lieu of cash tax payments, a strategy developed to cope with a shrinking tax base as producers go bankrupt and shut down production, unable to obtain a sufficient profit to pay a tax burden one hundred twenty-five percent higher than it was before the POPPA Coalition came to power.

We are implementing a currency change to eliminate the underground economy, and that will bring an enormous new segment of the economy into the tax base.

And with our tax base shifting, with our downtown businesses taking a hit because of Juniper's recent economic realignment, sales tax revenues are down considerably.

He said that the greatest good for the greatest number meant the best possible land use, and maybe a marina wasn't the best use when you think of the tax base and employment and so on.

University faculty and ad-ministration as well as university students used Cleaves as their bedroom, and the town had an enviable tax base.

At a time when people are fleeing New York in droves and eroding its tax base, is it wrong for others to register a strong yes vote for the city by making a HOME there?