revenue enhancement

American  

noun

1. a new tax or a tax increase.

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Example Sentences

The paper said the fiscal consolidation will be pursued to bring down the deficit through a combination of expenditure management and revenue enhancement.

From Reuters

And against these names Lacombe cross-searched 34 key words or phrases like “tax burden,” “tax revenue expansion,” “tax revenue enhancement,” “Social Security retirement pension,” “estate tax,” “corporate tax rates” and “flat tax.”

From New York Times

Call it what you like, but a “revenue enhancement” is a tax.

From Washington Post

But Dozier had fallen prey to another type of traffic stop, one whose motive is neither traffic safety nor revenue enhancement.

From The Guardian

But a two-thirds majority of both houses of the legislature voted to reject the governor’s veto of a $1.2 billion revenue enhancement over two years.

From Washington Post