gross up

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to increase (net income) to its pretax value

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Example Sentences

A lot of companies stopped picking up the tab for country-club memberships and curbed “gross up” payments, which make perks even sweeter by covering the taxes that accompany them.

From The Wall Street Journal

All Blanche could conjure up was the mind-boggling insistence that Weisselberg’s written words—“gross up”—“were a lie!”

From Slate

But a defendant’s knowledge is almost always proved circumstantially; the elaborate scheme to “gross up” and therefore disguise the $130,000 reimbursement to Cohen demonstrated a consciousness of guilt sufficient to prove knowledge of illegality.

From Slate

The Treasury said it was down to ministers at Holyrood "to gross up the payment if it wishes."

From BBC

A spokesperson from HM Treasury responded by saying: "The income tax on these payments is paid to Scotland, not Westminster - and the Scottish government has the powers and funding to gross up the payment if it wishes."

From BBC