Sentence examples for by a higher levy from inspiring English sources

How funded: £800m cost paid for by a higher levy on the banks.

Banks that make a lot of money and pay high wages and bonuses will pay a higher levy.

The one-third reduction in property tax revenue would be offset by a new, higher levy on business, a $1 per-pack increase in cigarette taxes and a portion of the state's $8 billion treasury surplus.

He also called for a big increase in capital spending on road building and construction – probably funded by a far higher levy on banks and action against bankers' bonuses – to boost economic activity and create jobs, in a departure from Labour's policy at the general election.

Osborne has ordered a review of whether the higher levy is justified by the amount of extra revenue it generates, saying "inefficient" taxes are pointless.

Before the election I worked up a proposal for huge tax cuts to encourage the purchase and use of the greenest, cleanest cars, to be paid for by higher levies on the gas guzzlers, but found it blocked by nervousness that the owners of Chelsea tractors would somehow be the group that denied us victory at the polls.

But the overall package did not involve any further stimulus, being fiscally neutral, paid for by increase in North Sea taxation and a higher bank levy.

But Labour insisted both schemes would go ahead, with a higher bank levy and the £2.7bn tuition fee cut financed by other means.

According to reports, the E.U. deemed illegal a recent attempt by Sweden to impose a higher tax, asserting levies on wine cannot exceed those on beer, lest they hurt the domestic wine businesses while, in this case, benefiting Sweden's brewers.

The pools of available venture capital wealth are diminished by high levies.

The A$5.5bn scheme would have been funded by a levy on high-income companies.