Sentence examples for financial levy from inspiring English sources

"We need a global financial levy for the banks," he said in a television interview Sunday.

But the point stands that a widely applied financial levy may be difficult to avoid and successfully raise revenue.Is this what the European Commission has in mind?

Britain's City minister, Lord Myners, will talk to US officials on Monday as part of a meeting with G7 countries to discuss ways to impose a financial levy on a banking system that has already bounced back to profit barely a year after a multibillion pound taxpayer bailout.

Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand have all imposed financial levies on foreign purchases of various securities.

The council decreed eight canons, or ecclesiastical statutes, including ones condemning the pillaging of church properties and the imposition of financial levies on the clergy.

In order to work, the financial transactions levy would need to be global.

But Mr. Brown is now suggesting "an insurance fee to reflect systemic risk or a resolution fund or contingent capital arrangements or a global financial transaction levy".

Merkel criticised both Barack Obama and David Cameron for opposing EU proposals for a financial transaction levy, or Tobin tax, and demanding "big bang" solutions.

The chips tax, nominally about tackling obesity, was launched in 2011, a tax on text messaging and phone calls in 2012 and a financial transaction levy on paying bills and taking cash from an ATM last year.

It is easy to think this finance is costless but there must be a cost; those who pay the cost may simply be unaware of it for a while (eg the financial repression levy).Still while one can hold down bond yields, there is nothing to stop investors from reacting in a different way and selling the yen.

SLOWLY but surely, a handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are drawing back the curtain on the mortgage servicing business, exposing, among other questionable practices, the sundry and onerous fees that big banks and financial companies levy on troubled borrowers.