after-tax
/ˈaf-tər-ˈtaks/ (ame, mw)
after-tax — adjective
1. used to describe an amount of money that is left over after the government has t
used to describe an amount of money that is left over after the government has taken tax on it — for example, after-tax income or after-tax profit.
Mei's after-tax salary was enough to cover her rent and groceries each month.
attributive: after-tax + salary
The company reported an after-tax profit of two million dollars last year.
attributive: after-tax + profit
Arjun calculated his after-tax income before making a budget for the new apartment.
The after-tax return on Kwame's investment was lower than he had hoped for.
Luisa checked her after-tax pay on the company's employee portal every month.
文法句型
after-tax + noun
用法筆記
Always placed before the noun it modifies. You cannot say 'the income is after-tax' — use 'the income is after taxes have been paid' instead.
常見錯誤
2. after you have paid the tax that you owe on money you have earned or received —
after you have paid the tax that you owe on money you have earned or received — used as a phrase to show what a figure looks like once tax is subtracted.
After tax, Mei's annual take-home pay was roughly forty-five thousand dollars.
clause-initial adverbial phrase: after tax,
The investment earned five percent before tax but only three and a half percent after tax.
parallel structure: before tax ⋯ after tax
Kwame calculated that after tax his bonus would add about eight thousand to his savings.
After tax, the inheritance was still large enough to buy a small house near the city.
The company pays bonuses in December, and after tax the amounts often surprise people.
- before tax
the amount before tax is subtracted
文法句型
after tax in clause-initial or clause-final position
用法筆記
In this adverbial use the hyphen is usually dropped — write 'after tax', not 'after-tax'. Distinguish from sense 1 (REMAINING AFTER TAXES): sense 1 goes before a noun, while this sense appears at the start or end of a clause.