Sentence examples for levy a rate from inspiring English sources

The Fisher Act of 1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance such colleges.

Panizzi had stated that he wanted the facilities of a great library to be available to poor students so that they could indulge their "learned curiosity"; in England in 1850 an act of Parliament was passed enabling local councils to levy a rate for the provision of free library facilities.

They would exempt $3.5 million per estate ($7 million per couple) from any estate tax and levy a rate of 45% above that, the same as in 2009.

America would be impoverished under a tax code that let you keep, say, your first $20,000 tax-free but levied a rate of 99% on amounts above that, even though the resulting average tax rate would be less than that which we have today.

New member states might be able to set a reduced rate of 5percentnt on a couple of items, but would have to levy a minimum rate of 15percentnt on almost everything else.

And third, levy a basic rate within each band on main homes of UK taxpayers and higher rates on all others, together with punitive and escalating rates on properties left empty.

To encourage people to save, Chile opted to levy a tax rate of only 15 percent on an individual's undistributed earnings while taxing distributed earnings at much higher rates (up to 45 percent).

Another band at £70,000 would levy a 45% rate.

The new tax could exempt staples, such as food, and levy a higher rate on luxury goods.

Any district that wants to levy a tax rate higher than $1.04 must hold a "tax ratification election".

On the whole, you should avoid using a credit card to withdraw cash abroad, as you would at home, because most providers will levy an exchange rate fee of up to 3%, warns Rachel Springall from Moneyfacts.co.uk.co.uk