Sentence examples for duty payable from inspiring English sources
A particularly unpopular measure, imposed on September 3rd, dramatically raised the duty payable on excess baggage (above a limit of 30kg per person).
From midnight on Friday, the stamp duty payable on a second home sold in England and Wales for £200,000 will rise from £1,500 to £7,500.
The Lib Dems were won round with accelerated tax cuts for the lowest paid, and increases in the stamp duty payable when buying homes worth £2m ($3.2m) or more.
Mike Warburton, director of tax at accountants Grant Thornton, explained that overseas people buying shares in a company that owned a luxury property paid 0.5% stamp duty, compared with 5% stamp duty payable on £1m-plus properties bought directly.
Stamp duty, payable on the purchase of a property, currently kicks in at a value of £125,001, being charged at an initial rate of 1%.
This led to the introduction of lighter-weighing cigarettes sold in progressively larger pack sizes, a uniquely Australian phenomenon, which minimized the duty payable and the wholesale value of packs leading to lower state fees as well, and a substantially lower cost per stick.
The seizure of stolen goods is authorized by the common law; and the seizure of goods forfeited for a breach of the revenue laws, or concealed to avoid the duties payable on them, has been authorized by English statutes for at least two centuries past; and the like seizures have been authorized by our own revenue acts from the commencement of the government.
I have just looked up the Air passenger duties payable on flights from November.
John created a new tax on income and movable goods in 1207 – effectively a version of a modern income tax – that produced £60,000; he created a new set of import and export duties payable directly to the crown.
In the view of HM Revenue & Customs, stamp duty is payable by the person taking over ownership.
Several such taxes already exist, of course, including the 0.5% stamp duty already payable on all UK share dealings.
