Sentence examples for imposed a levy from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

Finally, a decade after the death of Pack's children and following years of campaigning, the state legislature imposed a levy on on doctors' and pharmacists' license fees to upgrade the system.

When betting shops were legalised, parliament imposed a levy on their profits, in order to support horse racing and cushion the blow caused by punters betting away from the tracks.

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

But Mr. Barroso said that American and European positions were converging on some issues, including imposing a levy on banks.

The fear among analysts is that imposing a levy on depositors could create a dangerous precedent and, in a doomsday scenario, prompt depositors to move their money elsewhere.

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.

In fact, it works by imposing a levy on the "value added" at each stage in the production of a good or service.