To preserve the market, the world's fur producers, including those in the Soviet Union, have agreed to tax themselves with a 0.4% levy against auction sales.
We can protect a taxpayer against such a levy.
The program would be fundedthrough higher taxes on the wealthy, eliminating special tax breaks, a one-time tax on offshore profits, and a fee levied against big banks.
The maximum fine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration can levy against an automaker who withholds information on safety defects would triple from $35 million to $105 million per violation.
If there's a criticism levied against Wu, it's that he collaborates too often.
Mr. Jensen, a fourth-generation fisherman in the sound, said today that he thought justice would come the day he got his share of the $5 billion punitive damage a jury levied against Exxon six years ago.
If CZI remains separate from WHO, Chan and Zuckerberg won't be able to use their resources to change WHO's agenda, a charge levied against many of the voluntary contributions given to WHO.
One example was the Sugar Act, which was a tax levied against Providence's distilleries that adversely affected its trade in rum and slaves.
This saddens me in that it appears much like a threat levied against the entire non-banking economy if we allow the "extreme" case (using the article's words) of regulation to pass.
(In November 2005, Mexico's Federal Competition Commission upheld a fine levied against Coca-Cola Femsa for allegedly pressuring shopkeepers in tiendas not to offer another cola brand at their stores. The ruling will have the affect of making it easier for tiendas to sell cheaper, B-brand colas, such as "Big Cola", owned by a Peruvian company).
It's an unusually harsh charge to levy against nuisance protestors.
