Sentence examples for levies are imposed from inspiring English sources

No such levies are imposed on those who bought apartments after 1994 because they did not stand to make the kind of profits early owners could reap.

As a consequence the coinage was debased, and new fiscal taxation levies were imposed.

Heavier tax levies were imposed on peasants, who provided the bulk of government revenue.

That extended the unwinding of a run-up in the second quarter before Chinese retaliatory levies were imposed.

This crude levy is imposed on the value of a firm's sales.

A climate change levy was imposed on companies effective from 2001/2002.

The most notable beneficiaries where the levy is imposed have proved to be lawyers and agents, who cream off between 25% and 40% of the take.

Instead a £50-a-head levy was imposed on non-EU migrant visas, and it never raised more than £50m, which did little to ease the pressure points.

Analysts say that once the restrictions are lifted, people are likely to take their money out of Cypriot banks because few believe the government's promise that the bank levy being imposed will be a one-time measure.

Capital controls imposed to prevent deposits flooding out of the country look likely to stay in place for some time, at least until the hefty "levy" is imposed on savers to recoup the costs of the rescue.

The political danger behind the compulsory scheme is that the child of a parent that needed little expensive social care in their old age would still see the levy being imposed on their parent's estate.