Many Angelenos don't realize that hidden in their monthly bill from the Department of Water and Power is a big surcharge in the form of a 10% City of Los Angeles Utility Tax, as well as a "transfer" of 8% of all electric-related revenue to City Hall.
As well as high tariffs, Brazil's orange juice (it is the world's biggest producer) faces a surcharge levied by the American state of Florida the subject of another complaint at the WTO.
California voters addressed their state's school budget troubles with a surcharge on big incomes.
It should require this ratio for both parts, whatever international regulators (now debating the surcharge for big global firms) may do.
In addition, the Administration would levy a new surcharge on big, highly leveraged financial firms, reflecting the risks they present to the rest of the economy.
With the surcharge, most big carriers' full coach fare between New York and West Coast cities like San Francisco is $2,434, up from $1,880 a year ago.
LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters Thursday to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners, as part of yet another bad-news budget proposal, this one for 2012.
American Banker's Neil Haggerty: "Echoing House colleagues who raised similar concerns earlier this week, five Republican senators on Thursday called on the Federal Reserve Board to rethink the central bank's capital surcharge for the biggest banks.
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Sakari Suoninen and Huw Jones) - The world's biggest banks face a capital surcharge of up to three percent in a bid to keep taxpayers off the hook next time a lender gets into difficulty, Bundesbank and industry officials said on Friday.
In one such meeting, on April 30 , 2012 Porat and other bank representatives argued that a proposed capital surcharge for Too Big To Fail banks "would put U.S. banks at a competitive disadvantage relative to other global banks not subject to such a surcharge".
Nonetheless, by capping fares at $299, plus the $10 fuel surcharge, United removed the biggest complaint about Ted.
