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Example sentences for "taxes"

Lexicographically close words:
taxation; taxations; taxe; taxed; taxers; taxi; taxicab; taxicabs; taxidermist; taxidermists
  1. Your Irish pensioners would starve, if they had no other fund to live on than the taxes granted by English authority.

  2. If they had no other fund to live on than the taxes granted by English authority, your Irish pensioners would starve.

  3. The "imperial" taxes were for the emperor's privy purse, the fiscus.

  4. By her combined system of policy the landlords and other property holders were protected and enriched by the enormous taxes which were levied upon the labor of the country for their advantage.

  5. Ninety-six percent of all American taxpayers will see their taxes go down.

  6. To dispense with taxes when it may be done with perfect safety is equally the duty of their representatives.

  7. It is human nature on the part of those who pay graduated taxes to attack all taxes based on the principle of ability to pay.

  8. No favored class should demand freedom from assessment, and the taxes should be so distributed as not to fall unduly on the poor, but rather on the accumulated wealth of the country.

  9. This Congress produced tax cuts to reduce the taxes of nine out of 10 small businesses who use the money to invest more and create more jobs.

  10. It is possible, in consequence, to make a large reduction in the taxes of the people, which is the sole object of all curtailment.

  11. How often we read of a husband and wife both working, struggling from paycheck to paycheck to raise a family, meet a mortgage, pay their taxes and bills.

  12. Who are the dogs of pedestrians but those that pay the taxes to build them?

  13. Taxes had been lightened; the representation of the people increased, until; as he said, he was only nominally a ruler.

  14. The taxes are not heavy," quoth old Adelbert.

  15. And he had laid such taxes and exactions on them, that they had to destroy their houses.

  16. Their domestic customs were reasonable; they had taxes and judicial tribunals; their religion held belief in immortality, and in other respects was not below the paganism of Italy.

  17. I have heard of petitions which have been presented to the assembly of this state (and probably the same may have happened in other states) praying to have the taxes lowered.

  18. In this view, our taxes are properly our insurance money; they are what we pay to be made safe, and, in strict policy, are the best money we can lay out.

  19. I consider the revenues created by taxes as the first and principal thing, and fines only as secondary and accidental things.

  20. I would still keep the militia as an organized body of men, and should there be a real necessity to call them forth, pay them out of the proper revenues of the state, and increase the taxes a third or fourth per cent.

  21. In the resolution of Congress already recited, it is recommended to the several states to lay taxes for raising their quotas of money for the United States, separate from those laid for their own particular use.

  22. Their manner of reasoning would be short, because they would naturally infer, that if we were able to carry on a war of five or six years against them, we were able to pay the same taxes which they do.

  23. The imposition of small taxes for the promotion of public objects, is no grievance to a people whose prosperity is the work of a wise and considerative government.

  24. But the very best citizen is he who has the courage to own something and pay taxes on it, help support the community, and be useful to himself and to the world that holds him trustee of his possessions.

  25. The Duke of Mont Alto was in one of mine, and he was telling me something about taxes and water rent.

  26. On this point of taxes the ablest pens, and most eloquent tongues, have been exercised; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered.

  27. They attributed this firstly to the shocking taxes on provisions and secondly to the direct taxation which was known to oblige stock-owners to turn all their full-milk into cash.

  28. Though smarting, as all others, under the burden, yet they cheerfully pay the heavy taxes required from the country to meet our national obligations the outcome of the war.

  29. The taxpayers of the country, those of the Province of Quebec like all the others, willingly and patriotically accepted and paid without complaint the new taxes into the public treasury.

  30. When taxes are to be levied and battles to be fought, we are always an integral part of the United Kingdom; but when there is a question of encouraging or extending manufactures, we are treated as the rival and the enemy of England.

  31. This estimate assumes that all existing taxes will continue all through the fiscal year 1947.

  32. This means high taxes over the next few years.

  33. Tenth, a major increase in taxes to meet the cost of the defense effort.

  34. We have already had a substantial reduction in taxes from wartime peaks.

  35. We must see to it that these taxes are shared among the people as fairly as possible.

  36. Until inflation has been stopped there should be no cut in taxes that is not offset by additions at another point in our tax structure.

  37. The plan was to divide up the land into equal squares, and to levy taxes in proportion to the fertility of each.

  38. To the endowment in lands and taxes provided by royal order, Dr.

  39. And tell King George we'll pay no taxes On his foreign tea.

  40. His congregation groaned under the necessity of paying taxes to support the rectors of three neighboring parishes.

  41. In the Dominions licenses for the sale of alcoholic liquors, excise duties, and land taxes are all imposed by the States.

  42. To imagine that a Parliament in Dublin would heap taxes on the rich is unthinkable, as any taxes on Ulster would weigh as heavily on other parts of Ireland.

  43. The Irish Parliament will not have power to tax articles not subject to Imperial taxes for the time being.

  44. The Irish Legislature with that exception could impose taxes on Ireland.

  45. The Irish Parliament will have power to reduce taxes levied in Ireland.

  46. They might also be very well made State, that is to say Irish, taxes in Ireland.

  47. Customs and Excise duties were to be regulated and collected by the Imperial authority which was also to fix postal rates; but all other taxes were to be imposed by the Irish Legislature.

  48. Imperial statutes will not be obeyed, and Imperial taxes will not be collected.

  49. I have shown that that evil was caused not by identical taxation, but by heavy taxes on food, which oppressed alike the poor of Ireland, and the more numerous poor of Great Britain.

  50. Each resorted to every available method of raising money for the conduct of the war, and among other ways laid heavy taxes on the clergy.

  51. The Church claimed for her members that they should not be liable to pay the taxes raised by the secular authorities, nor should they have causes to which any ecclesiastic was a party tried in the secular courts.

  52. The number of the new taxes is a third point specially to be noted in his budget.

  53. These duties and all other taxes he brought into a consolidated fund on which all public debts were secured.

  54. Assessed taxes are essentially an optional expense, in that they can be avoided by those who do not choose to incur them.

  55. Though parliament had frequently imposed port-duties on the colonies, it had abstained from imposing taxes within them.

  56. Taxes levied by the custom-house upon goods exported or imported.

  57. Not being public ministers, they are liable to the lex loci both civil and criminal, and their exemption from certain taxes depends upon treaty and custom.

  58. She was down here in Eadston for the day to pay her taxes and took her dinner with us.

  59. Aurelius," this to Uncle Bruce deep in his newspaper on the seat in front of them, "I want a list of the women in town who pay taxes on property in their own name.

  60. The further collection of taxes seemed impossible; the assessments were in hopeless confusion.

  61. Taxes by parliamentary requisition as little likely to be raised, 256.

  62. Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year, the taxes from which that extraordinary revenue was drawn would last no longer than the war.

  63. This is over and above all their other taxes on succession.

  64. That all taxes ought to fall as equally as possible upon the fund which must finally pay them, is certainly true.

  65. The natural tendency of the window tax, and of all other taxes upon houses, is to lower rents.

  66. Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money.

  67. The particular consideration of each of these four different sources of taxes will divide the second part of the present chapter into four articles, three of which will require several other subdivisions.

  68. Thirdly, and lastly, by subjecting all those taxes to an administration under the immediate inspection and direction of government, the exorbitant profits of the farmers-general might be added to the revenue of the state.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.