Sentence examples for take a levy from inspiring English sources

However, one source said that the issue was discussed in board meetings, "but the Seafish line was that we weren't a fishery protection agency, our job was to take a levy on every tonne landed".

"With the SPFL rules meaning they take a levy of 50% of the gate receipts before expenses, and the high cost of policing and stewarding these fixtures, the board do not feel that they are in a position to offer free entry to season ticket holders".

The "blood tax" took a periodic levy of male children for conversion to Islam and service in the Janissary Corps of the Ottoman army.

Here's what the report said: "The Guardian can reveal that the illegally landed fish was sold with the knowledge of the government-funded industry marketing authority Seafish, which took a £2.58 levy for every tonne of over-quota mackerel and herring.

If Congress isn't wild about Amtrak's proposal, it should take a look at Mr Levy's plan.

He said: "I want to end what I call the ghosts in the machine – the people who do not make a conscious decision to sign up to Labour but become so-called levy payers and take a role in the party".

Revoking the government's power to levy income tax would take a constitutional amendment, and that is unlikely.

We also need to take a vigorous whack at the capital gains levy, but even that remains unlikely.

In 1257 the Mongols, in order to levy taxes, took a census in most of Russia.

That happened in 1985 with the abolition of the Eady levy, which took a share of box office receipts to support British film production.

But he took a gratuitous slap at Mr. Levy, characterizing him as a union puppet and a purveyor of retrograde thinking.