Sentence examples for the exchequer between from inspiring English sources

Rather than representing a drain on Britain's hard-pressed finances, European migrants made a net contribution of £20bn to the exchequer between 2000 and 2011.

For example, earlier this year Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK listed the ways in which the chancellor, George Osborne, had changed the tax regime for the largest corporations, and calculated that these concessions would cost the exchequer between £5bn and £10bn a year over the next six years.

The Office for National Statistics ONSsaidaid public sector net borrowing – the gap between the exchequer's tax-take and its spending – was £4.34bn compared with a repayment of £5.27bn a year earlier.

An anti-corruption report alleges the scam cost the exchequer more than $3bn £1.8bnn) between 2006 and 2010.

The Zambian sugar-producing subsidiary of Associated British Foods, a FTSE 100 company, contributed virtually no corporation tax to the state's exchequer between 2007 and 2012, and none at all for two of those years.

Aside from what it's costing us, there's also money to be made: according to The Institute for Social and Economic Research, the exchequer could expect to net between £400 million to £900 million a year from regulating and taxing cannabis.

This means the sell-off may well have been the most expensive deal ever done by a British chancellor, costing the exchequer (and benefiting grateful gold buyers) between £6bn and £7bn – roughly twice as much as Black Wednesday.

If it is so generous that big donors can essentially choose between contributing to the Exchequer (ie paying their due rate of tax) or supporting a favoured charity, has it not gone too far?

With the Writ of Quominus, which allowed the Exchequer to look at "common" cases between subject and subject, this discretionary area was significantly expanded, and it soon regained its standing in common law matters.

Indeed, rates are expected to be put up after the first post-election, monetary-policy meeting between the chancellor of the exchequer and the governor of the Bank of England, on May 7th.

Could Osborne's promise to cut public spending as a percentage of GDP and to "share the proceeds of growth" between tax cuts and the exchequer be any clearer?