Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Subject or liable to taxation.
  • Allowable according to law, as certain costs or disbursements of an action in court.
  • noun A person or thing subject to taxation; especially, a person subject to a poll-tax.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes.
  • adjective (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective subject to taxation.
  • noun Something on which tax must be paid.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of goods or funds) subject to taxation

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Examples

  • Despite a triple-A rating and taxation powers, Utah recently paid 0.75 percentage point over Treasurys to borrow about $100 million in taxable Build America bonds for 10 years.

    Jumping Into Munis Requires a Leap of Faith David Reilly 2010

  • He still holds some ETFs in taxable brokerage accounts because selling them would result in capital gains.

    Adviser Says No to ETFs Shefali Anand 2010

  • However, Mr. Wyden's idea to renew Build America Bonds with what are known as taxable tax credits appears to reflect the general direction of federal policymakers.

    New Build America Bonds Proposal on Tap Andrew Ackerman 2011

  • The truth is that 100% of the complexity inheres in the definition of taxable income, which takes up millions of words in the tax laws.

    The Folly of the Flat Tax Alan S. Blinder 2011

  • How about this for a simple tax (no idea if percentages work, just a rough idea, and while they seem low remmeber no deductions at all, for example I made $97K last year but thanks to deductions only had $55K in taxable income), all income is equal capital gains vs salary vs inheritamce you name it:

    Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax 2009

  • The report claims that legalizing marijuana would save the state $1 billion on law enforcement, generate an estimated $350 million in taxable revenue and make marijuana a $14 billion industry, nearly twice the size of California's dairy industry, the state's next biggest agriculture industry.

    Legal Minds Vote For Legalizing Pot Andrew Schenkel 2010

  • Instead, increase your emergency funds in taxable accounts and open a Roth IRA.

    Deadlines Loom For Tax-Saving Accounts Ashlea Ebeling 2010

  • The official added that these workless households could still claim £26,000 a year, the equivalent of £35,000 in taxable income.

    Benefit cuts 'will force thousands into suburbs' Patrick Wintour 2010

  • The report claims that legalizing marijuana would save the state $1 billion on law enforcement, generate an estimated $350 million in taxable revenue and make marijuana a $14 billion industry, nearly twice the size of California's dairy industry, the state's next biggest agriculture industry.

    Legal Minds Vote For Legalizing Pot Andrew Schenkel 2010

  • A dollar put into a 401K, for a taxpayer at the top bracket, will have to eventually, somehow, someway, generate $2.86 in taxable income to be a breakeven proposition for the Treasury (BTW, this is in Present Values, if you look into the future the taxable income generated would have to be much more to also account for the time value of money).

    Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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