Sentence examples for put a levy on from inspiring English sources

Typically, the agency will put a levy on an employed person's paychecks, taking a chunk from each one until the bill is paid.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of.

The scheme, also known as a Tobin tax, would put a levy on all euro transactions anywhere in the world.

If necessary after that we need to put a levy on those organisations to pay for the policing of this.

The European Union is considering implementing a transaction tax — applicable in London — that would put a levy on every financial trade.

First, in its attempt to cobble together a contribution to the bailout, Cyprus decided to put a levy on local bank deposits.

On the other hand, since 1999, the state government has put a levy of RM56/tonne on the production of CPO if the CPO price is above RM1 000/tonne.

Gabriel originally proposed putting a levy on CO2 emitted by the oldest and most-polluting power stations above a certain threshold to help curb CO2 emissions from the coal sector by a further 22m tonnes by 2020.

But banning the sight of a gross misallocation of resources rather than attacking the roots of it — by, say, reforming regressive indirect taxation, and putting a levy on capital gains and inheritance — is a political self-delusion as disconcerting as when Chinese officials used to show each other bogus bumper harvests.

He also said that the idea of putting a levy on bank accounts "undermines confidence in the banking system" (a reference to the eurozone's €100,000 deposit protection scheme) Wheatley was speaking at a press conference in London (my colleague Jill Treanor reports).

The model is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - the instrument, conceived under the Kyoto Protocol, that puts a levy on carbon trading and ploughs it back into projects in developing countries that lower emissions.