Sentence examples for impose a levy from inspiring English sources

For example, countries could agree to impose a levy on banks that would be used to create a central deposit guarantee fund — a European Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The commission expressed a pious expectation that other countries, including the US and Switzerland, would see justice, and impose a levy of their own.

What happened in Cyprus makes it virtually impossible that any other government would dare to attempt the "Cypriot stunt" of trying to impose a levy on small depositors.

That's not to say that Tory plans to impose a levy on banks (as long as other countries follow suit) got support either.

Barack Obama will announce plans today to impose a levy on Wall Street banks to cover some of the cost of bailing them out during the financial crisis.

Derby city council has called for the right to impose a levy on large supermarkets, which it says could earn the local authority an estimated £2m a year.

South Korea is, for example, considering imposing a levy on banks' foreign currency liabilities.

That's why we imposed a levy on the banks in our first budget.

It imposed a levy of 0.45percentt of taxable income, meaning someone earning $75,000 paid nearly $350 annually.

Four years later, the tribe still has not imposed a levy on the smoke shops.

It has imposed a levy on the country's banks, equivalent to 120 billion forints ($560m) or 0.5% of GDP.