The phrase "impose a charge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of requiring payment or a fee for a service or action.
Example: "The company decided to impose a charge for late payments to encourage timely transactions."
Alternatives: "levy a fee" or "apply a charge."
"We will introduce legislation to impose a charge on them if we have not seen sufficient progress on a voluntary basis".
On Sunday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor Party government disclosed the details of its carbon tax, which would impose a charge of 23 dollars on each metric ton of carbon emissions a company produced.
High street retailers have been given a year to cut down on the number of plastic bags they hand out to customers or face legislation that will force them to impose a charge on every bag they give away.
The government plans to impose a charge for any property company conversions into property investment funds, and there could be large up-front tax costs for companies setting up a fund, said Clare Hartnell, a tax partner at accountants Grant Thornton.
Reviews of the merits of freedom of information requests were previously available free of charge through the freedom of information commissioner, but this will be moved back to the administrative appeals tribunal, which is likely to impose a charge of more than $800.
This is supported by English contract law, and a great quote by Mr Justice Etherton in a case from 2005 where he said that a data supplier "is entitled, in principle, to impose a charge for use of its … data by, and for the benefit of, [users], whether or not [it] has intellectual property rights in respect of the data" (Attheraces v The British Horse Racing Board 2005).
Most domestic airlines now operate with a meticulously calibrated system aimed at imposing a charge for each degree of misery you choose to eliminate.
Labour will seek to beef up its pitch to voters on immigration with a pledge to pay for 1,000 extra border guards by imposing a charge on visitors from the US and 55 other countries.
8.26pm BST James Ball, the Guardian's data editor, writes that "the Obama administration didn't merely go through the motions" in pursuit of Bradley Manning; military authorities "imposed a charge that should have sparked far greater alarm than it did".
As we'll discuss in future questions in this series, this imposes a charge on the emission of greenhouse gases equivalent to the corresponding potential cost caused through future climate change.
Southwest, which has both low fares and short flights, is imposing a charge of $2 on flights up to 600 miles, $6 for 600 to 900 miles and $8 for longer flights.
