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tax-free

tax-free

27 2.9
The government does not take money from something you buy or money you earn
  • adjective
  • /tæks-fri/
translation icon : libre de impuestos
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • One million dollars in cash, tax free.

  • Yesterday we set out our support for parents with tax free childcare.

  • So municipal bonds are tax free in the United States.

  • 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.

  • 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

exempt
vstax-free
71 4.4

Not required to do something others must do, for example paying tax

is specific to being free from taxation rather than any general exception
tax-exempt
vstax-free
15 4.6

You do not have to pay tax on income or a purchase

is the general label for being not subject to taxation
untaxed
vstax-free
2 4.4

Not having money paid to the government for goods or money you get

is stated as being free from taxation rather than showing past status
nontaxable
vstax-free
  • Specialized
1 4.2

The government does not make you pay money for it

is the general exemption idea without legal phrasing
untaxable
vstax-free
1 5.0

Not required by law to pay tax

is the broader idea of being free from tax not stressing law

Antonyms

22 3.7

That you must pay tax on

How Taxed

taxable
22 3.7
tax-free
27 2.9
duty-free
8 3.3

Surface Forms

tax-free positive
tax-freer comparative
tax-freest superlative

Morphology

tax-free = tax + free (transparent) = tax + free

The meaning is a direct combination of 'tax' and 'free' (not subject to tax), a straightforward compounding understood by learners.

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'.