Sentence examples for levies in the from inspiring English sources
(Fuel levies in the U.K. are still much, much higher than they are here).
David Cameron did the same after Haiyan (having threatened weeks before to remove green levies in the UK).
But he can only do that after Osborne has "cauterised the public angst about green levies" in the autumn statement.
The economist Barry Eichengreen once explored the imposition of capital levies in the aftermath of first and second world wars.
"These 25 bills, things like levies in the agricultural sector and the statute amendment bill, may well be worthy but I'm not sure you'd trumpet them as the centre of your agenda," she told Radio National.
The Beckhams, who the paper said paid £12.7m in tax due from their dividends and other levies in the accounts of their two principal companies, are a notable inclusion.
Zhang, X., L. Ortolano, and Z. Lv, 2010, "Agency Empowerment through the Administrative Litigation Law Court Enforcementt of Pollution Levies in Hubei Province, China," The China Quarterly, No. 202, pp. 307-326.
Most of the largest fines under the FCPA have been levied in the past two years (see chart).
The capital-gains tax on resales, for example, was only rarely levied in the past.
Extortionate taxes were levied in the provinces, and the government became filled with unprincipled opportunists.
This paper gives a short history of fuel taxation and the Climate Change Levy in the UK.
