surtax

IPA: sˈɝtæks

Examples of "surtax" in Sentences

A surtax is the ultimate act of public-sector panic.
What we call the normal income tax is the ordinary tax; what we call the surtax is the supertax.
A progressive war surtax is the fairest way to pay for it – fairest to working class families and fairest to military families.
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%)
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.
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.
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.
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.