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sponge taxes

sponge taxes is the plural of sponge tax.

Meaning of sponge tax

Noun

sponge tax (plural sponge taxes)

  1. (US, historical) An estate tax imposed by a state that was credited against the federal estate tax, raising revenue for a state without increasing the overall tax burden.
    • Following various versions of the Massachusetts estate tax in response to the changes in the Internal Revenue Code, in 2002, the Legislature amended § 2A to use a "sponge tax" calculation based upon the Federal credit for State death taxes that would have been allowable to a decedent's estate in...2020, Elspeth B. Cypher writing for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Shaffer v. Commissioner of Revenue, case number SJC 12812https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2020/07/10/q12812.pdf

Questions about sponge taxes

What is sponge taxes the plural of?
Sponge taxes is the plural of sponge tax.

Words near sponge taxes in the dictionary

  1. sponge roll
  2. sponge rolls
  3. sponge rubber
  4. sponge stick
  5. sponge tax
  6. sponge taxes
  7. sponge toffee
  8. sponge up
  9. sponge-bag
  10. sponge-bag pants
  11. sponge-bags

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