Sentence examples for modest surcharge from inspiring English sources

Individual New Yorkers earning more than $200,000 a year and married couples earning $300,000 pay a modest surcharge that expires in December.

At the moment, solar energy adds 1.01 euros ($1.69) a month to a typical home electricity bill, a modest surcharge that Germans are willing to pay.

But the preferable option of imposing a modest surcharge on state income taxes is a non-starter among the state and local lawmakers who would have to approve it in an election year.

Most companies have a modest surcharge – up to $3 -- for a gluten-free crust – because of the low volume and because it's more expensive to produce, company representatives aid.

He proposed eliminating a $26.6 billion shortfall with nearly equal measures of spending cuts — to public schools, higher education, health care programs for the elderly, economic-redevelopment funds for communities — and extensions of modest surcharges on the state's income tax (0.25 percent), sales tax (1 percent) and automobile registrations (0.5 percent) that would otherwise expire.

Monday's vote was the first time a "Buffett rule" proposal has come to a Senate vote this election year, though Democrats have tried unsuccessfully in recent months to impose modest surcharges on the income of the wealthy.

It would make fiscal and moral sense for owners of apartments and houses with a value above $1 million to pay a modest tax surcharge toward a fund devoted exclusively to increasing the availability of low-income housing.

The roughly $3 billion in lost subway and bus revenues could be recovered through a combination of modest state tax increases, surcharges on socially harmful products and levies on carbon emissions.

Another problem: The allowable 2% surcharge is too low.

That surcharge has expired.

Have you encountered a $5 A.T.M. surcharge?