Sentence examples for high levies from inspiring English sources

Despite these high levies, agencies struggle.

The threshold is strict, meaning that most farmers need to change their environmental management and performance to avoid high levies.

Paris and Berlin still don't get it: High levies are economic-growth killers, stifling the very innovation that is the lifeblood of higher standards of living.

The personal income tax, capped at 27%, is also limited; the De Beaulieus, for example, don't pay Panamanian taxes on their French investments, which face high levies at home.

The pools of available venture capital wealth are diminished by high levies.

The Cypriots had until recently refused to toe the ECB/IMF line of imposing a high levy on large investments, fearful of scaring off the Russians who have poured billions into Cyprus.

Officials had been surprised, in the negotiations in Brussels, that the Cyprus side were willing to impose such a high levy on the poorest savers, in order to limit the "sticker shock" for Russian high rollers with holdings of more than 100,000 euros.

Along with other changes to the tax code — higher levies on capital gains, higher rates for the upper middle class — the supertax drew on the republican ideal of taxation as an institution that would foster social cohesion.

He argues that the more sophisticated package replacing the 50% rate with higher levies on capital gains and - most importantly - a big shift to green taxes is an essential recognition of political reality.

Big firms want to hear the party's plans for taxing and spending before they pass judgment and are wary of its commitment to higher levies on big incomes and expensive houses.

In reality, all the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush were slated to expire anyway, and Republican congressional leaders, their back against the wall, had to accept some higher levies on the wealthy.