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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are being levied" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where taxes, fees, or charges are being imposed or collected.
Example: "New taxes are being levied on luxury goods to fund public services."
Alternatives: "are being imposed" or "are being charged".
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In Tehran, the minister of labour thunders that undocumented Afghans have taken a million Iranian jobs, and fines are being levied on firms employing them.
Still, fines are being levied every week against players for committing the helmet-to-helmet blows that cause so many head injuries.
But when the paper examined felony arrest statistics they found, [the] data shows that prostitution-related felonies are being levied almost exclusively against sex workers.
"This uncertainty over fees — some of these fees are being levied going back to 2008 or 2009 — creates more uncertainty about the real estate market over all," said Ludmila Yamalova, a real estate attorney in Dubai.
There are no national data on how much is being collected, reflecting the patchwork of policies, but fees are being levied for booking and processing and co-payments on medical treatment as well as room and board.
Those (including non-residents) with incomes over a million are being levied €200,000 apiece, but this is generally agreed to be window-dressing, and income-tax bands remain unchanged.
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Some observers have expressed surprise that a fee is being levied at all.
While the social-care precept is being levied by almost every council in England, the revenue is not being passed on to providers.
At the same time, however, I am being required to pay an assessment that is being levied as a result of benefits received only by the residential shareholders.
Lufthansa said that its new fee was being levied only on booking channels where the carrier's own costs have gone up.
And Peter McLaughlin, an Infosys spokesman, said, "It is unfortunate that this tax is being levied on a discriminatory basis when the need is to open markets to make companies more competitive in the global marketplace".
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