Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An additional tax.
- noun A tax levied on corporations or individuals after net income has exceeded a certain level.
- transitive verb To levy a surtax on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put a surtax, or extra tax, on.
- noun A tax on something already taxed; additional tax on specific articles.
- noun An additional or too great burden or strain, as on the nerves or other physical organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To impose an additional tax on.
- noun An additional or extra tax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law An additional or extra
tax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed
- verb levy an extra tax on
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Examples
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A progressive war surtax is the fairest way to pay for it – fairest to working class families and fairest to military families.
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If a surtax is seriously being considered by Congress, it makes little sense to simultaneously dismiss the proposals to limit deductions or cap benefits out of hand.
Wonk Room » House Democrats Considering Surtax As Part Of Plan To Pay For Health Reform 2009
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Even if the health care surtax is enacted, the Social Security payroll cap is lifted, and the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011, the rich would be paying 45 percent in federal income taxes.
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Effectively, the tax rate will be 39.6% plus whatever the surtax is plus whatever state + local income taxes (plus of course medicare which is roughly 1.45%)
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What we call the normal income tax is the ordinary tax; what we call the surtax is the supertax.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921
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Obama will call his surtax "the Buffett Rule" in honor of the billionaire who wants higher taxes and who once said of class warfare that there was indeed a class war in America and his class, the very rich, were winning.
Robert Kuttner: Muddled Class Warfare Robert Kuttner 2011
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Obama will call his surtax "the Buffett Rule" in honor of the billionaire who wants higher taxes and who once said of class warfare that there was indeed a class war in America and his class, the very rich, were winning.
Robert Kuttner: Muddled Class Warfare Robert Kuttner 2011
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Obama will call his surtax "the Buffett Rule" in honor of the billionaire who wants higher taxes and who once said of class warfare that there was indeed a class war in America and his class, the very rich, were winning.
Robert Kuttner: Muddled Class Warfare Robert Kuttner 2011
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A surtax is the ultimate act of public-sector panic.
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The taxes you talk about, at least what's being reported in the news, the so-called surtax -- half of that surtax is going to fall on small business owners filing as individuals in this country, and so, it appears for all of the world like a massive government-run insurance plan paid for with a freight train of mandates and taxes and bureaucracy.
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