surtax

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These include the 3.8% surtax on net investment income, taxes on Social Security payments and Medicare income-based premiums known as Irmaa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Supermarket bosses highlighted that part of the government's business rates reforms posed a problem for the industry, in particular the so-called business rates surtax, which is being levied on all large commercial premises.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Payroll taxes paid by employers are rising not only to cover payouts to unemployed workers but also a state surcharge and a gradually increasing federal surtax to help pay off the principal on the debt.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

The surtax as drafted would apply to both ordinary income and capital gains income.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021

China is also to be allowed to levy a surtax on certain articles, mainly luxuries, which will yield an additional revenue.

From From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by Latane, John Holladay