Example Sentences

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The billionaire, who moved the company's headquarters from California to Texas this month after his personal move last year, also slammed California for "overtaxation."

From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2021

“Our arm was twisted,” Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has said regarding the tax burden, admitting that overtaxation wasn’t the best solution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 26, 2018

By official accounts, there were 58,000 protests in 2003, as workers, peasants and even stock-market investors fought everything from corruption to overtaxation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furthermore, the actual amount taken each year in the shape of overtaxation was variously estimated to be between two and three quarters and three millions.

From Ireland Since Parnell by Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond)

The peasantry had stood for overtaxation without the slightest complaint, but when this proclamation came out, they rebelled.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair