Sentence examples for imposed vat from inspiring English sources

Once Lamont imposed VAT on household fuel, under EU rules no British government was able to cut it.

Lachlan Wolfers of KPMG, an accounting firm, says he expects the reform to expand nationwide by the end of this year.China's government has long imposed VAT on tangible goods and the tax now contributes a quarter of its revenues.

There is no other way to interpret their refusal to accept the Greek's latest proposal, which accepted huge government surpluses of 1% of GDP in 2015 and 2% in 2016, imposed VAT increases, and further cut pensions which are already below the poverty line for almost half of Greece's pensioners.

Mr Brown also took a swipe at a Tory proposal to impose VAT on airline tickets.

With inflation nearing 30%, Iranians are already grumpy: witness a recent strike by bazaar merchants protesting against a plan to impose VAT, at 3%.

Few in the Treasury, if anyone, probably expected the outcry following proposals to impose VAT on hot food such as Cornish pasties.

We should resist the European paradigm of imposing VAT taxes on Internet service and the content and information accessed over the Internet.

Here, in an imposing vat, is the justly fabled ash reshteh, a result of the eight-hour communion of five kinds of beans, a riot of herbs and onion cooked down to a sweet density.

Alternatively, something that would "hurt" a bit more, government could directly tax school fees (as in Labour's manifesto pledge to impose VAT or in Andrew Adonis's proposed 25% "educational opportunity tax").

The prime minister's problems began at the Treasury select committee on Tuesday when the fiercely independent and somewhat lugubrious Labour MP John Mann asked George Osborne why he was imposing VAT on hot foods such as pasties.

Osborne revealed he could not recall, leading to tabloid accusations that he was not aware of the impact of the budget plan to impose VAT on hot takeaway pasties.