tax credit

plural tax credits

1. A tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit they have accrued from the total they owe.

   A tax credit—it just doesn’t feel like a benefit in the same way that getting your Social Security check does. It doesn’t register with people in the same way, and that has a real impact on support for the program.

   2022 December 22, Annie Lowrey, quoting Pamela Herd, “The Child Tax Credit Was a Little Too Subtle”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2022

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   The bill extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and includes new spending for border security and the military. Republicans aimed to offset these costs with cuts to programmmes^([sic]) such as Medicaid, food stamps and green-energy tax credits.

   2025 June 3, David Smith, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2025