adjective
- calculated or existing before taxes are deducted
Usage: finance; business
Examples
- Her pretax income was $75,000 last year.
- The company reported pretax profits of $2.3 million.
- Contributions to your 401k are made with pretax dollars.
- The pretax price of the car was $25,000 before sales tax.
- His pretax salary doesn’t include the bonus he received.
- We need to compare pretax earnings across different quarters.