tax burden
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the amount of tax paid by a person, group, or population.
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the biggest share of tax due or paid to the government, collected from a particular segment of the population.
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Palty doesn’t have a website yet but said his campaign is built around reducing the tax burden for residents and eliminating waste and fraud in the assessor’s office.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
This served as a model for the OECD’s Pillar 2—except it was never intended to impose an additional tax burden on companies already paying substantial taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Large-scale mining firms in Ghana already face a high tax burden, including a five percent royalty on gross revenue and a 35 percent corporate income tax, the chamber said.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
At year’s end, investors sell their losers to lower their capital-gains tax burden — harvesting losses to offset gains.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
But intangible property, such as bonds, stocks, or mortgage, can easily be hidden, so that owners of this type of property often evade their share of the tax burden.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
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