Sentence examples for extraordinary taxes from inspiring English sources

It seems likely that there were additional extraordinary taxes levied by edict from Egypt.

Thanks to booming prices for its farm exports, and extraordinary taxes on them, the government racked up a primary fiscal surplus (ie, before debt payments) of 4.2% of GDP last year.

A few years later the treasury was developed into a well-organized office, collecting regularly the "extraordinary" taxes (originally intended in case of urgent necessity, mostly under the pressure of the Turkish peril).

Later known as the Cortes, these assemblies performed a variety of functions, one of the most important of which was to give consent to the levy of extraordinary taxes necessitated by the king's ever-increasing financial obligations as royal activities and responsibilities steadily expanded.

Even the extraordinary taxes, now added to the crown's ordinary revenue, notably the taille (a direct tax levied on all but the nobility and the clergy), customs duties, and the purchase tax on wine, fish, meat, and especially salt (the gabelle), were not adequate resources for Renaissance princes whose chief glory lay in the expensive art of war.

The increasing defense costs fell primarily on the serfs: the rent on the land was raised and extraordinary taxes were imposed.

The forecast includes 10 cents a share in special items, like investment-related losses, stock-based compensation and extraordinary tax expenses.

A primary school in Leominster, Herefordshire, is raising money to place solar panels on its roof – with the lure of extraordinary tax breaks.

Both Ferdinand IV and Alfonso XI explicitly stated that they would not levy an extraordinary tax without the consent of the Cortes, and John I agreed to let the Cortes audit his accounts.

Thus the entirely true charge that Mr. Romney wants to slash historically low tax rates on the rich even further dovetails perfectly with his own record of extraordinary tax avoidance — so extraordinary that he's evidently afraid to let voters see his tax returns from before 2010.

"While the poor and middle-class fight for us in Afghanistan and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks," Buffett wrote in the New York Times last month.