Meaning & use
untaxed
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Meanings
adjectivenot comparablefinance
Not subject to tax, or not yet charged tax.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after a verb: untaxed income, or the income is untaxed.
Patterns
- untaxed income
- untaxed profits
Gifts under a certain value are untaxed in many countries.
The savings account pays untaxed interest up to a yearly limit.
Untaxed profits were sitting in an overseas account.
adjectivebefore a nounrarefigurative
Not tested hard or burdened, as a person or resource that is not strained.
Grammar: A rarer, literary use meaning not strained: an untaxed mind.
The easy puzzle left her untaxed and bored.
An untaxed engine will run quietly for years.
He had an untaxed memory and never needed notes.
Common combinations
- untaxed income
- He was fined for failing to report untaxed income.
- untaxed profits
- The firm kept its untaxed profits abroad.
- untaxed goods
- Untaxed goods are often sold at airport shops.
- remain untaxed
- The benefit will remain untaxed until next year.
Synonyms and how they differ
- tax-free
- Tax-free is the everyday term for something legally exempt, while untaxed can also describe tax simply not yet applied.
- tax-exempt
- Tax-exempt is more formal and implies a legal status, such as a charity.
- duty-free
- Duty-free applies only to import or sales duties on goods, not to income.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: untaxed or untaxing?
untaxed vs untaxing
Untaxing means not demanding or tiring, while untaxed is about money charged by the government.
Practice
The charity's donations are ___, so none of the money goes to the government.
Choose one answer.
Untaxed means no tax is charged. Taxable is tempting but means tax could be charged, which is the opposite idea here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “untaxed”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.