Taxes

Examples

• Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What was the Crown to him except the King's Taxes? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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.
• He figures up what all these taxes ought to amount to in a certain district. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Taxes upon the necessaries of life are much higher in many other countries than in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The people of France, however, it is generally acknowledged, are much more oppressed by taxes than the people of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But there are those who believe that taxes will break them up. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But a fresh war breaking out with the Indians, a fresh load of debt was incurred; and the taxes, of course, continued longer by a new law. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Both Ireland and the colonies, indeed, would be subjected to heavier taxes than any which they at present pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• All taxes, they pretend, fall ultimately upon the rent of land, and ought, therefore, to be imposed equally upon the fund which must finally pay them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Before I enter upon the examination of particular taxes, it is necessary to premise the four following maximis with regard to taxes in general. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Uncertainty, however, does not seem to be necessarily inherent in the nature of such taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such taxes, therefore, are really equivalent, they say, to a tax upon every particular commodity produced at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is otherwise with taxes upon what I call luxuries, even upon those of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The remissness of our people in paying taxes is highly blameable, the unwillingness to pay them is still more so. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Whether taxes upon the necessaries of life, such as those in Great Britain upon soap, salt, leather, candles, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It probably fell somewhat short of its usual amount; all the different taxes upon cyder, having, that year, produced less than ordinary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You will not get far on the Bowery with the cost unit system and low taxes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In some countries, the lands of the church are exempted from all taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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