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tax credits

tax credits is the plural of tax credit.

Meaning of tax credit

Noun

tax credit (plural tax credits)

  1. A tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit they have accrued from the total they owe.
    • A tax credit—it just doesn’t feel like a benefit in the same way that getting your Social Security check does. It doesn’t register with people in the same way, and that has a real impact on support for the program.2022 December 22, Annie Lowrey, quoting Pamela Herd, “The Child Tax Credit Was a Little Too Subtle”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2022

Questions about tax credits

What is tax credits the plural of?
Tax credits is the plural of tax credit.

Words near tax credits in the dictionary

  1. tax collection
  2. tax collections
  3. tax collector
  4. tax collectors
  5. tax credit
  6. tax credits
  7. tax cut
  8. tax cuts
  9. Tax Day
  10. Tax Days
  11. tax declaration

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