Example sentences for: levied

How can you use “levied” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some excise taxes (considered to be benefit taxes) are levied on bases that are related to the use of publicly provided goods and services or the public provision of other benefits, such as the gasoline tax; certain other excise taxes are levied on bases related to a cause of some damage and are dedicated to pay down costs, such as the tax on domestically mined coal, which is dedicated to the black lung disability trust fund.

  • The Times story has this juicy detail indicating that there were some worries inside the campaign about the scheme's propriety: During the campaign, senior Clinton aide Harold Ickes pressed for an indemnification clause in the media consultants' contract that would have forced the consultants to pay any fines levied if the plan was found to be illegal.

  • Economist Barry Bosworth said that while Fannie Mae was a "good, hard-charging" corporation, it should be "fully-taxed," and an "equalization tax" should be levied on its borrowing to offset the effect of the implicit federal guarantee.

  • If a state does not participate (or is not certified by the Department of Labor as meeting Federal requirements): (i) the Federal unemployment tax is levied within the state at its maximum rate, (ii) the system does not pay any unemployment compensation benefits within the state, and (iii) the Federal Government provides no grants to state governments to pay for the costs of administration.

  • --Taxes (including customs duties) are levied through the exercise of the power of the Government to compel payment.


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