tax-free
- adjective
- /tæks-fri/
- During the holiday, the store offered a special promotion for tax-free shopping on select items.
- tax-free bonds
- tax-free status
So it's a sort of a tax free zone of some kind.
- So it's a sort of a tax free zone of some kind.
- I mean, they put their tax free money to very advantageous use.
- And then here children have money tax free.
- We'll let them work for free, under the table, tax free, and we'll just tax you guys more.
- This is not income, which means, you guessed it, it's tax free.
- And the Roth IRA is the single best way to enjoy a tax free retirement.
- So when I have passive income, it's tax free.
- So outside of an ISA, there is a different tax free allowance called the personal savings allowance.
- I was able to take that out of the home and it was all tax free.
- And the best part about it is when you die, your kids inherit it tax free and it's tax free for them forever.
- Also, any money that you make within a Roth IRA is tax free.
Examples
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The school is seeking nearly $10 million in tax-free industrial revenue bonds from the local Economic Development Authority.
Academic text (1991) -
A Roth IRA is great because all of the money in that accounts will be tax free when you take it out at retirements.
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One million dollars in cash, tax free.
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Yesterday we set out our support for parents with tax free childcare.
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So municipal bonds are tax free in the United States.
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In addition, fishing income has been made entirely tax-free as an incentive.
Academic text (1990) -
While on injured leave, he continued to collect his full salary, tax-free.
Academic text (2010) -
And at the present rate of exchange... ...it should be netting him a cool 2 million bucks a year, tax-free.
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The money that floods in is tax-free, and no one knows where it goes, not even Will Trona.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many parents benefit from tax-free childcare options to help manage their expenses.
Synonyms
Not required to do something others must do, for example paying tax
You do not have to pay tax on income or a purchase
Not having money paid to the government for goods or money you get
The government does not make you pay money for it
Not required by law to pay tax
Antonyms
How Taxed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tax-free joins tax and free, which means 'without tax'. Think of a duty-free shop at the airport where items are sold 'tax-free' — you do not pay the tax there, and the same idea applies to income or goods that are 'not taxed'.