Sentence examples for avoid levying from inspiring English sources

Such discipline is often imposed to avoid levying fines that many smaller institutions cannot afford.

I tell you this story for a reason: It highlights the issues behind the current furor over Amazon's ability to avoid levying sales taxes in most states.

Although Britain has hiked taxes on the rich, foreigners' favourable tax status, which permits them to avoid levies on income earned elsewhere, has not been touched since an annual charge was imposed in 2008.

Rutgers can then sell the certificates in a market popular with companies that want to avoid penalties levied by the state on generators of polluting energy.

After an unsuccessful trip to Moscow to seek a €5 billion ($6.4 billion) emergency loan, followed by the eurogroup's rejection of Nicosia's alternative plan to raise €6 billion to avoid a levy on deposits as well as the collapse of Laiki Bank, the island's second-largest lender, Mr Sarris threw in the towel.

The biggest impact will come if manufacturers change their recipes, cutting the amount of sugar in their drinks to avoid the levy altogether.

It is no surprise that British Treasury officials suggest they will not sanction any transaction levy that is limited to the EU.The second objection is the ease of disguising transactions, for example as derivatives, to avoid any levy.

But at £2m, the number of estates affected plummets to perhaps 3,000 a year, and the very rich tend to be able to plan their tax affairs to avoid the levy completely.

The campaign declined repeatedly to answer questions about whether holding some of Mr. Romney's retirement investments in overseas vehicles may have allowed him to avoid a levy known as the unrelated business income tax, or UBIT.

Sweden's experiments in the 1980s with a transaction tax on shares, equity derivatives and fixed-income securities ended in failure as activity moved offshore to avoid the levies.

When the Tory grandee Sir George Young said Lord Ashcroft was actually a "non-dom", paying a nominal UK tax bill but allowed to avoid any levy on overseas assets, the Tories quickly said he had "mis-spoken".