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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a small levy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a minor charge or tax imposed by an authority, often in the context of finance or government.
Example: "The city council decided to impose a small levy on property owners to fund local infrastructure improvements."
Alternatives: "a minor tax" or "a slight charge".
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Imagine if a small levy went to fighting doping.
The body should become self-financing, perhaps by a small levy on donated income.
Investors keen to buy into markets where prices have already risen are not deterred by a small levy.
So why not make all profitable broadcasters pay a small levy to pay for C4's public service remit?
It argued that a small levy on transactions might help to dampen the "herding behaviour" encouraged by computer-program trading.
The scheme is funded by a small levy on financial service providers and receives no direct taxpayer contribution.
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When it comes to Broadway, only a smaller levy makes sense — and even that should be short term.
The core of the plan is what in Albany has been called play-or-pay, a $3,000 tax on employers for each worker they do not insure, with a smaller levy for small businesses that pay low wages.
Under that proposal, businesses that pay less than $150,000 a year in base rent would no longer have to pay the commercial rent tax, and those paying between $150,000 and $190,000 would pay a smaller levy.
A Robin Hood, or transactional, tax would involve a very small levy on each financial transaction conducted by a bank.
Primary producers will pay a very small levy on chickens to repay the $1.85m that the government paid on behalf of the industry to help secure the borders from bird flu.
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