Sentence examples for tax set up from inspiring English sources

He campaigned on a promise to "axe the tax" set up by the previous government to make carbon emitters pay.

Douglas Mason, known as one of the engineers of the "Thatcher revolution" and the "father of the poll tax" set up home in Glenrothes in the 1960s and spent most of his adult life living there.

Enter New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes, set up by the beverage industry, grocers and the Teamsters, who work as drivers and in production.

The government also scrapped a planned increase in fuel taxes, set up a fund for first-time home buyers and imposed what is being called a "Learjet levy" on private planes flying into the country.

If you're not familiar with small business taxes, set up an appointment with a CPA: you just might find that your side business can lower your overall tax bill for the first year or two.

But the company, based in San Francisco and backed by Google and Goldman Sachs, came under increasing pressure to be more transparent about its tax set-up.

Since Washington's tax set-up is regressive—"the most unfair tax system in the country", according to Lisa Brown, the Democratic leader of the state Senate it is the poor who are clobbered hardest.

Though Dorries said the tax set-up of the Littlewoods pension pot was her primary concern, she took the opportunity to take a pop at the Barclay Brothers' reputation for using lawyers against those delivering unfavourable coverage of their affairs.

Despite HMV's inability to make high street music retailing pay, many independent record shops are already reporting higher demand and sales, due partly to a backlash against Amazon's tax set-up and the difficulty of stumbling across unexpected gems online.

WASHINGTON — Republican governors are moving aggressively to cut personal and corporate income taxes, including proposals that would increase reliance on state sales taxes, setting up ambitious experiments in tax reform that could shape what is possible on a national level.

The same cadres responsible for easing the peasant burden dream up new fees and taxes — "setting up a township Web site," "stipend for the forest guard" — that have not yet been banned explicitly by the central government.