Sentence examples for a modest levy on from inspiring English sources

For a city scrounging for additional revenue, reviving a modest levy on commuters remains one of the fairest and least painful options around.

A modest levy on the firms or developers or banks is never enough.

The candidates are also talking about restoring the commuter tax — a modest levy on suburbanites who earn their living in the city, use its services and benefit from its transit lines — to help pay for the system's upkeep.

Nick Xenophon, who has called for a "modest" temporary levy on milk to go directly back to farmers, said Joyce's delayed reaction on $1 milk had a Rip Van Winkle feel to it.

The President didn't specify precisely where the new revenue would come from, or how much it would be, but in briefings his aides suggested that the primary source would be a modest one-off levy on the roughly one and a half trillion dollars in untaxed earnings that American corporations are holding overseas.

A very modest levy would raise tens of billions to support and set in train finance mechanisms which could, say, kickstart the deadlocked global climate negotiations.

Federico Franco, the Liberal who replaced Mr Lugo after he was impeached, got Congress to pass a long-delayed law levying a modest tax on very high incomes.Mr Cartes will also struggle to keep his election promises.

This was a flat tax, a levy on production with a maximum rate of one percent.

Royal Caribbean's pledge to "not abandon Haiti now they need us most" might raise eyebrows in other destinations: such as Grenada, abandoned in the late 1990s for requesting a modest waste management levy, or conversely Alaska, who found it difficult to keep cruise liners away despite a referendum seeking to curb their effects on unspoilt waters.

In a seventeen-and-a-half-trillion-dollar economy, thirty-two billion dollars a year, on average — which is roughly the sum that tax hikes and a new levy on big banks would raise, according to Obama Administration officials — is a very modest sum.

A modest down payment on a home?