Sentence examples for custom taxes from inspiring English sources

In the 1970s, handicapés were granted exemption from custom taxes, and many turned their wheelchairs into pick-ups.

[C8.] Frankel Is Sentenced in Germany A German court sentenced Martin R. Frankel, the American financier, to three years in prison for failing to pay custom taxes on smuggled diamonds and carrying false passports.

A state court sentenced Martin R. Frankel, the fugitive American financier, to three years in prison today for failing to pay custom taxes on smuggled diamonds and carrying falsified passports.

France has value-added taxes, taxes on the sale of real estate, on occupying real estate, on owning real estate, on divorce settlements if real estate is involved, taxes on employers and taxes on employees, taxes on using the judicial system, custom taxes, taxes on wealth itself, and, of course, taxes on income.

Eleven years later in 1873, attempts made by Suliwatang to collect custom taxes from inhabitants at the Muar estuary led to further conflict with Abu Bakar's (who became Maharaja in 1868) men.

Equally, despite previously being protected by the German colonial administration in 1914, the hunting of the native bird of paradise, crowned pigeon and white heron for the lucrative trade in their feathers and skin, was officially condoned and a custom tax levied on their export.

There are several ways companies can benefit from the zones, mainly from decreased customs taxes.

Under the Oslo accords, Israel has collected certain sales and customs taxes on the Palestinian Authority's behalf.

In addition the federal treasury collects customs taxes on foreign goods imported to Puerto Rico and excise taxes on goods sold in the United States.

FOREIGN trade zones provide companies such benefits as decreased or delayed customs taxes; enterprise zones offer, among other things, a tax exemption on services and goods, including construction material, that companies buy to use in the zone.

Two weeks ago, Vice-President Roxana Baldetti stepped down after accusations that she had been linked to a ring accused of taking bribes to avoid customs taxes, but protests in the country of 15 million people have continued since then.