Sentence examples for basically tax from inspiring English sources

Finally, why should we believe that Romney's policies — basically tax cuts for the rich, as usual — would yield great economic results?

The rules vary but basically tax scofflaws are told that if they pay what they owe within a specific period of time, penalties, interest and punishment will be waived.

Mr. Bush has not provided specifics on what he means by "fundamental tax reform," but many Republicans and some of his campaign advisers view his call as one that would replace the income tax with a system that would basically tax personal consumption, effectively eliminating levies on investment and savings.

Basically, tax credits lower your tax amount, dollar for dollar, whereas tax deductions reduce your taxable income.

During his peak years as a writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in a basically tax-free world and averaged about $165,000 a year in today's dollars, but was chronically unable to get through the month without borrowing from his literary agent or, on occasion, his mother.

"I would be very cautious about any bill that basically taxes someone's entire income," notes Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., the top Republican on the House panel.

Inputs are identified by two subscripts: the first takes the values 1, …, g, for commodities, g + 1, for primary factors, and g + 2, for "other costs" (basically, taxes and subsidies on production); the second subscript identifies the source of the input, being it from domestic region b (1b) or imported (2), or coming from labor (1) or capital (2).

In Hong Kong as one of the fast-growing economic cities in Asia, all residents are entitled to enjoy highly subsidized health care provided by public hospitals and health clinics which are basically tax-funded like many other ex-colonies in the British Commonwealth [ 38].

Suppose that it's 1979, and individual A is a member of the working poor, paying 12 percent of his income in taxes — basically payroll tax and not much else.

It is, basically, a tax on bank size and leverage.

And the Republican candidates, Mr. Burman said, are "basically advocating tax cuts for rich people.