Levied

Examples

• Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The vingtieme seems not to have raised the rate of those annuities, though it is exactly levied upon them all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By means of this system, there is annually levied in Great Britain, upon less than eight millions of people, more than ten millions of revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In France, the duties upon tobacco and salt are levied in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This great revenue, too, might be levied without the appointment of a single new officer to collect and receive it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Upon such a fund, no more money would probably be advanced than what the tax to be levied in Great Britain might be supposed to answer for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The latter are considered as a branch of the domain of the crown and are levied by a different set of officers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The neat revenue of the customs does not amount to two millions and a-half, which is levied at an expense of more than ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Tithes take place in all of them, and are levied with the utmost rigour in those of Spain and Portugal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To the gathering of notables, a summoned assembly of leading men, Calonne propounded a scheme for a subsidy to be levied upon all landed property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Taxes upon the produce of land may be levied, either in kind, or, according to a certain valuation in money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This tax is levied by a much smaller number of officers than any other which affords nearly the same revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The power of Spain and Portugal, on the contrary, derives some support from the taxes levied upon their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On top of this the Government has levied a tax of one-tenth of the whole proceeds of the land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The troops had been levied from every province in the empire; they had no tradition or principle of combined action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The most important transit-duty in the world, is that levied by the king of Denmark upon all merchant ships which pass through the Sound. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Those taxes, levied in this manner, yield a very considerable revenue to government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I have already mentioned a tax upon bread, which, so far as it is consumed in farm houses and country villages, is there levied in the same manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The former are considered as a branch of the aids of excise, and, in the provinces where those duties take place, are levied by the excise officers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1911 an indirect potash tax was levied by Germany on her best customer, the United States, to whom 15 million dollars' worth of potash had been sold the preceding year. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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