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use tax

American  
[yoos] / jus /

noun

  1. a state tax imposed on goods purchased outside a state for which state sales tax has not been paid.


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If they use tax losses to enhance returns, investors tend to get interested in dumping their losers late in the year.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

“Those with high itemized expenses in 2025 may have an opportunity to use tax savings to fund more Roth conversions.”

From MarketWatch Dec. 28, 2025

Much like developers who use tax credits to build affordable housing, Leung had to assemble financing from multiple sources.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2024

This is why it is more appropriate to use tax data on inheritance relief, rather than farm survey data, to estimate the impact of the change in the Budget on individuals.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2024

A sales tax and a use tax in many instances may bring about the same result.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin

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