Sentence examples for state levying from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Calderón dismisses critiques suggesting that Mexico is a failed state, he and his aides have spoken bluntly of the cartels' attempts to set up a state within a state, levying taxes, throwing up roadblocks and enforcing their own codes of behavior.

Crackdowns on dissidents continue, and the state levies high taxes on entrepreneurs and private business.

In that case, it is taxed at a higher 7 percent rate that the state levies on prepared foods.

Some economically successful countries that believe in a strong state levy high taxes, like Germany or Sweden.

Part of that is the rethinking of "growth-distorting taxes" such as stamp duty and other state levies, it said.

Many peasants chose to become serfs (nobi) in order to seek protection by aristocrats and to avoid the state levies.

Still, there are many ways for the tax-wise investor to minimize or even avoid various federal and state levies.

Known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), it would replace a tangle of state levies with a single, national one.

On December 19th the government tabled a bill to establish a long-awaited national goods-and-services tax (GST) in place of a welter of state levies.

Rather than raise state levies, he has proposed cutting aid to schools by $1.2 billion and curbing spending on health care for the poor by an additional $1 billion.

The state levied the accusation after anti-abortion activists released undercover videos they say show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the illegal for-profit sale of fetal tissue.