Thesaurus results for TAXED

taxed

verb

past tense of tax

as in stretched

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience

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Recent Examples of taxed If your heirs inherit assets in New York, they’re taxed at thresholds that now reach the upper middle class. —

Greg Raiff, Fortune, 16 May 2026 Changes in federal funding and in how legal cannabis is taxed initially put roughly 4,200 slots at risk. —

Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 The committee rejected Assembly Bill 1790, which would restructure the way multinational corporations are taxed to force them to more completely report their offshore profits. —

Andrew Graham may 14, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026 Apartments in certain residential buildings are taxed double. —

Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026 Off the top of my head, and without looking it up, my recollection is that only the accelerated depreciation is taxed at 25%, and any depreciation that was claimed using a straight line method would be subject to the normal long-term capital gain rules and brackets, which could be 0%, 15%, or 20%. —

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 How different investments are taxed Investments aren’t all taxed the same way. —

Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026 For those with higher incomes, 85% of benefits are taxed. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026 Little of the city’s most expensive real estate is actually taxed at its market value. —

Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 7 May 2026

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The fire extinguisher incident was the latest pitfall in a season that, even by Marseille’s own inherently chaotic standards, has stretched the bounds of credibility.

— Tom Williams, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Overcrowded shelters, limited spay-and-neuter access and a shortage of foster homes have created a system stretched beyond capacity.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2026