The phrase 'exorbitant tax' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express disapproval for a tax or fee that is perceived to be too high. For example, "The government was criticized for imposing an exorbitant tax on businesses."
Exorbitant tax increases, however, do affect smokers' buying practices.
In France smuggling against the tobacco monopoly and the exorbitant tax on salt became widespread.
Milk's first foray into politics came after he successfully disputed an exorbitant tax assessment on his business.
The group supports voluntary fuel efficiency targets for the sector, which she said "doesn't need an exorbitant tax to incentivize the industry to go green".
First, your own numbers show that it takes an exorbitant tax, or extremely expensive gas, to alter the buying and driving habits of Americans.
He provided the political umbrella that enabled his economic guru, Ludwig Erhard, to sweep away Allied-imposed economic controls and cut exorbitant tax rates, thereby triggering what came to be known as the German economic miracle.
Farmers in the province have complained of exorbitant taxes and beatings by the local authorities.
Others say the government will make it hard to take profits off the island, through exorbitant taxes or limits on currency exchange.
"The government has put VAT on salt, flour, cooking oil, bread and milk, exorbitant taxes that hurt the poor, while the government has not trimmed expenditure," said Hajat.
OPEC members argue that the main sources of high prices at the gasoline pump are high demand and exorbitant taxes in industrial nations.
Despite the wishes of Americans, and the troubles that Europeans have maintaining systems that punish hard work with exorbitant taxes, Democrats still seem determined to chase a bankrupt vision of utopia.
