tax burden
noun
: responsibility for paying a greater portion of taxes
The tax burden has been falling increasingly on the middle class.
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That places most of the state's tax burden on you – and should change.
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Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
The tax burden is shifted from older taxpayers onto younger ones.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Tariffs raise prices for consumers if importers fail to swallow the tax burden by eating into their profits or requesting that a supplier sell the product at a lower rate in order to offset a share of the cost.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2025
In 2017, Republicans used the SALT cap to place even more of the federal receipts tax burden on blue states.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 May 2025
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Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
The tax burden is shifted from older taxpayers onto younger ones.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Tariffs raise prices for consumers if importers fail to swallow the tax burden by eating into their profits or requesting that a supplier sell the product at a lower rate in order to offset a share of the cost.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2025
In 2017, Republicans used the SALT cap to place even more of the federal receipts tax burden on blue states.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for tax burden
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“Tax burden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tax%20burden. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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