As CD's sales declined, a digital musical surcharge, or something similar, could be assessed by Internet providers.
"I don't think surcharging is something most restaurant owners will want to do in the first place — you want to have the most seamless, simple and positive interaction with the consumer as possible," Scott DeFife, executive vice president of the National Restaurant Association, a trade group that is a party to the suit, said in July.
At some U.P.S. Store franchises in Manhattan, however, clerks do not always tell customers that they may be paying a Grinch-like surcharge when they send something by the United States mail.
After meeting privately with President Obama on Wednesday, Senate Democrats began to cobble together a new deal to extend the payroll tax without using a surcharge on incomes over $1 million, something Republicans detest.
Shouldn't we really be calling any tax increase something like a "surcharge" or "contributions in lieu of military service" or, if we have to use the word "tax", a "war tax"?
"There is something incredibly disingenuous about these fuel surcharges.
As of last October, there were "something like 86" special taxes and surcharges around the country levied on car rentals, and another 48 were being considered, said Neil Abrams, president of the Abrams Consulting Group, which follows the car rental industry.
One thing cardholders won't get, however, is a waiver on those dreaded 3 percent surcharges for purchases that take place outside of the United States, something that Chase's more expensive United Club Visa offers.
Some expected the music industry to push for an additional surcharge on mobile downloads, so good on all parties involved for working something out that doesn't stiff the customers.
Some of them have already added small surcharges — $3 in the case of Delta Air Lines — in anticipation of having to pay something when the E.U. presents the bill.
