after-tax

/ˈaf-tər-ˈtaks/ (ame, mw)

after-tax — 形容詞

1. used to describe an amount of money that is left over after the government has t

1.形容詞B1
釋義

稅後的

扣除稅款後所剩的

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.

例句

Mei's after-tax salary was enough to cover her rent and groceries each month.

Mei 的稅後薪水足夠支付她每個月的房租和雜貨。

attributive: after-tax + salary

The company reported an after-tax profit of two million dollars last year.

該公司去年申報了兩百萬美元的稅後利潤。

attributive: after-tax + profit

同義詞
  • net

    broader term — net pay also includes other deductions (insurance, pension), not just taxes

  • take-home

    less formal, used mainly for salary or wages after all deductions

反義詞
  • pretax

    describes the amount before any taxes are subtracted

  • gross

    the total amount before any deductions at all

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

❌Her salary is after-tax.
✅Her after-tax salary is thirty-five thousand dollars.
💡'after-tax' is only used before a noun, not as a predicate.

2. after you have paid the tax that you owe on money you have earned or received —

2.形容詞B1
釋義

稅後

繳納稅款之後

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.

例句

After tax, Mei's annual take-home pay was roughly forty-five thousand dollars.

繳稅之後，Mei 每年的實領薪水大約是四萬五千美元。

clause-initial adverbial phrase: after tax,

The investment earned five percent before tax but only three and a half percent after tax.

這筆投資稅前報酬率為百分之五，但稅後只剩下百分之三點五。

parallel structure: before tax ⋯ after tax

反義詞

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.

常見錯誤

❌After-tax, my salary is forty thousand.
✅After tax, my salary is forty thousand.
💡when used as an adverbial phrase, drop the hyphen.