tax hikes
Raised government charges
Tax hikes are increases in tax rates or the amount of tax owed.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in political contexts, often with negative framing: The senator voted against the proposed tax hikes.
A more neutral term would be tax increases.
- government spendingState allocation of funds
- revenueBusiness income total
- deficit reductionShrinking budget shortfalls
- fiscal cliffScheduled austerity convergence point
- balanced budgetSpending matching revenue
levy · fiscal austerity · bracket creep · raises · duty · excise · tariff · fiscal conservatism · progressive taxation · increase · retroactive · capital flight · disposable income · cost of living · sticker shock · income inequality · Congress · election year
- economic policymonetary policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint, tariff
- government actionslaws, policies, presidential decree, resolution, mandates
- taxationtaxable income, VAT, withholding, deductions, deduction
- US TaxationIRS, withholding, deductions, income brackets, AMT
- fiscal policybudget deficit, deficit spending, national budget, budget surplus, budget deficits
- Policyeconomic policy, public policy, energy policy, domestic policy, drug policy
tax hikestax cuts
Decreased government assessments
tax reductions · tax relief · tax rebates · tax breaks · rate cuts
tax hikesausterity measures
Policies reducing government spending
spending cuts · trickle-down economics · fiscal stimulus · supply-side economics · economic stimulus
tax, hike, hiking, taxing, taxed, taxes, hiker, hiked, hikers