Sentence examples for consumer taxes from inspiring English sources

But he was careful not to promise lavish new spending or threaten new consumer taxes.

Of the entire national receipts, almost 59% comes from consumer taxes.

"We thereby oppose consumer taxes, like 'cap and trade' mechanisms, and cross-class compromises with big business and capital".

Furthermore, numbers from the O.E.C.D. show that Denmark has one of the highest marginal tax rates for high earners — 67 percent — when consumer taxes are included.

To secure the loans, the center-left Greek government approved painful austerity measures, cutting salaries and pensions, raising consumer taxes, and pledging to crack down on tax evasion.

A report commissioned by Cristobal Montoro, the tax minister, proposes a shift from income tax and social-security contributions to consumer taxes while closing business-tax loopholes.

A small consumer tax could easily produce millions.

Small business is a $1.1 billion business and consumer tax is at $983 million.

Senator McCain's bill would have imposed the largest consumer tax increase in history: $516 billion.

But it looks like this could be offset at least partially by the higher consumer tax on insurance premiums.

Former Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, David M. Walker, former United States comptroller general, and I have recently proposed a variation of the gas tax to finance our critical infrastructure that includes both a consumer tax and an industry tax.