How to Use tax-exempt in a Sentence

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  • In exchange for the voluntary payments, the city agrees not to challenge the colleges’ tax-exempt status.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Why should one income source be tax-exempt but not another?
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The suit was dropped, but Synanon could not regain public favor, closing down after the IRS revoked the group’s tax-exempt status in 1982.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Advertisement Never mind that the idea of making tips tax-exempt has flaws.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Court records say the conversion was done solely to get the tax-exempt funding from the Arizona authority.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • The land becomes tax-exempt and the developer agrees to reserve at least 50% of the apartment units for people making up to 80% of the area’s median income.
    — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, the temple persuaded the IRS to recognize it not only as a tax-exempt religion but as a proper church.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The project also called for public support in the form of about $200 million in tax-exempt bond financing as well as a Brownfield future tax-capture.
    — Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Ferguson’s fight drew media attention and even a threat to revoke the DAR’s tax-exempt status.
    — Corinne Dorsey, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Not-for-profit, or tax-exempt hospitals, account for most hospitals and health systems in the U.S.
    — Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The project mainly will be funded by tax-exempt municipal bonds.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Then in 2019, Sanford Health — a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital system — acquired the nursing home.
    — Harris Meyer, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Ptolemy declared the temples tax-exempt to curry their favor.
    — Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Under the statute, tax-exempt properties must fill out forms explaining their non-profit work.
    — Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • Any income generated by the LLC would flow up to the charity, which being tax-exempt did not pay any taxes on that income.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Clothing, backpacks and school supplies have to be under $100 to be tax-exempt, and delivery and transportation charges are counted as part of the total sales price.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Many items meet tax-exempt status — with certain price qualifiers.
    — Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But just because a hospital’s name goes up on a building doesn’t mean that property has become tax-exempt, Lawson said.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The club, a nonprofit corporation, lost its tax-exempt status in 2010.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The federal government is spending $3 billion on the project, as well as offering access to $3.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But its low rates and its tax-exempt status give it competitive advantages.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • Wisconsin, Iowa, and other states have issued similar tax-exempt bonds, which deprive the states of millions of dollars in tax revenue.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In the first 40 years after the law was passed, the IRS stripped a handful of religious nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, the news organizations reported.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The tax-equivalent yield calculation provides a simple framework to compare a tax-exempt bond to a taxable bond.
    — Chris Gunster, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The donors have not been released, and the organization, which has been tax-exempt just since January, has not yet filed documentation with the IRS that shows all of the people involved.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Portable generators priced under $3,000 are the most expensive item on the tax-exempt list.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Related: Hospitals need to earn their tax-exempt status The natural answer is their boards.
    — Sanjay Kishore and Suhas Gondi, STAT, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Therefore, if the collectives aren’t tax-exempt, the donations collected wouldn’t be either.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The outlet compiled the list based on the Internal Revenue Service's Form 990 for tax-exempt organizations.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The company's effective tax rate decreased, reflecting a higher mix of tax-exempt income and solar investment tax credits.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2025

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