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pretax

/pree-taks/US // priˈtæks //

税前,除税前,税前的,课前

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : prior to the payment of taxes: pretax income; bonds earning 12 percent pretax.

Examples

  • The slow growth of pretax incomes for the bottom 50% of earners has been the main driver of increasing income inequality over the past half-century.

  • It now makes up nearly 14% of a typical Dominion customer’s pretax gas bill, according to the analysis by Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica.

  • Yet Boeing has paid zero federal income taxes in the past decade, despite bringing in $32 billion of pretax profits.