While the charge isn’t strictly a tax, the alternative is (from the recipient’s point of view) tax free.

由于这一费用并非严格的税费，另一种选择便是（从收件人的观点来看）免税。

During the recession, Texans were quick to point to the struggles in states like California, and to brag about the comparative advantage of Texas's low-tax, low-services model.

危机袭来时，德州对于陷入泥沼中的加利福尼亚等州急于指手画脚，吹嘘德州低税收，低服务模式的比较优势。

That's "cash on delivery." While the charge isn't strictly a tax, the alternative is (from the recipient's point of view) tax free.

由于这一费用并非严格的税费，另一种选择便是(从收件人的观点来看)免税。

At one point FBI agents checking her past-but naming no names — asked the IRS how it would normally handle her kind of social-security tax problem.

在一个点联邦调查局特工检查她的名字没有——问past - but命名美国国税局其如何处理她的一种社会保障的税收问题。