processing tax

American  

noun

1. a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.

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Example Sentences

By staying fully staffed, the IRS should be able to continue processing tax returns and issuing refunds during a shutdown.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

The IRS has endured decades of underfunding and been overloaded with paper documents that prevented the agency from processing tax forms at a faster pace.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023

The confirmation comes at a pivotal moment of transition for the agency, which has struggled to perform its most basic responsibilities, including processing tax returns and answering taxpayer calls.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

The rest of the funding is meant to bring the IRS into the digital age by upgrading its decades-old technology and chipping away at its backlog of processing tax returns.

From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2023

Actually in that shirt there was about one pound of cotton and the processing tax amounted to four and a quarter cents on that pound of cotton.

From The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano