aftertax
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of aftertax
First recorded in 1950–55; adj. use of prepositional phrase after tax(es)
Example Sentences
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With a Roth conversion, a person pays taxes to turn pretax IRA savings into aftertax investments.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
JPMorgan's aftertax income dropped 7.6 percent after recording a tax expense, compared with a rare tax benefit of $2.2 billion a year earlier.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2016
Jones calculates the net present aftertax value of the payments to the daughter as $696,000.
From Forbes ● Jun. 17, 2015
"The aftertax return on sales, for example, normally is below the average returns in the Anglo-Saxon economies because we strive for a different balance between economy, ecology, and social responsibility."
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 30, 2010
This is still scandalously high, higher in fact than my aftertax weekly pay will amount to.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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