pretax

• pre-tax

pre- +‎ tax

pretax (not comparable)

1. Before the payment of taxes.

pretax (third-person singular simple present pretaxes, present participle pretaxing, simple past and past participle pretaxed)

1. To tax before the action being taxed occurs.
   • 1997, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report:

     It is the motion that says let us rescind this part that pretaxes breaking the law or that causes me to pay the penalty for other people breaking the law . Let us rescind that. If all members vote in favour of that it will pass and we […]

   • 2012, Alan D. Viard, Robert Carroll, Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X-Tax Revisited, page 149:

     Although cash flows arising after the sale to the nonprofit are not taxed when they arise, that result is perfectly appropriate because the cash flows were pretaxed (in expected present value) at the time of the sale.

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