How to Use levy in a Sentence
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The levy will stay in place through the end of the year.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
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The Orange Schools has not had a levy on the ballot since 2011.
—Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
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The Metroparks relies on its levy for more than 60% of its revenue.
—cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
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Citi’s estimates show that the levy could amount to 19% of banks’ net profits for the year.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
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The park district relies on that levy for more than 60% of its revenue.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
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Other funding comes from a county tax levy and the state.
—Geoff Mulvihill and Carla K. Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
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Forest Hills didn't have a levy on the ballot in November.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 3 May 2023
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The cruise line will also pay a new tourism levy in exchange for the development.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2023
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No members of the public spoke at the public hearing on the levy, which took place at the beginning of the Dec. 15 school board meeting.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
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The county’s 6% levy on hotel rooms and other short-term lodgings raised more than $300 million last year, the most ever.
—Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
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Another increase could come in the property tax levy, which is set to increase by about 2.6% in the new budget.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2022
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The decision to move forward with the project means delaying building a new North High School until a tax levy can be passed.
—Megan Becka, cleveland, 12 July 2023
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Yet rather than close them, lawmakers across the country want to establish a new levy that would create more.
—John Breaux, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
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The tax would slap a 3-cent levy on each kilowatt hour of electricity sold to a vehicle owner.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
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Also likely before year’s end is the verdict of a lengthy review of the Trump China tariffs that could result in the lifting of some levies.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
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The levy is less than the 9.6 billion yuan profit that Ant generated in the December quarter.
—Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 7 July 2023
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The House adopted a Healey proposal to cut the levy on the sale of assets held for less than a year from 12 percent 5 percent, which is much closer to rates in other states.
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
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The state’s new 7% levy on some capital gains isn’t adjusted for inflation, which means the bite will increase over time.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
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The wealth tax would impose a levy upon the capital gains of a subset of the Vermont population who boast a net worth of more than $10 million.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2024
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The board is expected to vote in December on whether to place a bond levy on the May, 2023 ballot for the public’s consideration.
—cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
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Parliament still needs to pass the legislation to introduce the levy.
—WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
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Sweden’s government is cutting taxes on gas and diesel, and backing away from a levy on plastic bags.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
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The levy would replace an existing one that was first introduced in 2005, according to a news release.
—Linda Gandee, cleveland, 31 July 2023
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That said, district officials defend this year’s tax levy, set at 5 %, but yielding a little over 4 %.
—Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
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Taxes also depended on what levies voters approved in the area.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
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Those levies were followed by tit-for-tat increases in import duties between the two countries.
—Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
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About $26 million of the project funding will come from the city and grants, Okada said, with no additional property tax levy needed.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2024
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Revenue lost to the loophole was partly offset by a simpler-to-administer levy: the estate tax.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
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Hunt cut national insurance — a levy paid by people who work — by 2 percentage points.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
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Wayne Local School District What: 1.65-mill, 5-year, permanent improvement levy.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
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As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
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The Montgomery police said Thursday that no more charges had been levied against the men, but more could come.
—Remy Tumin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
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And then there are the taxes and fees levied by the airports and even state and local governments.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
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The count restarts in the playoffs, when the league will levy a one-game suspension after seven.
—Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Health-care workers have also levied their share of work stoppages this year.
—Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
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Ford has levied hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against its dealers because of the false billings.
—Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2024
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But the city won’t be eating the cost of more inspections — fines levied on the apartment owners will cover that.
—Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2023
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This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
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No fines have been levied so far — or at least none have been reported publicly.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
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According to the report, Alabama levies a host of fees that go to fund all sorts of agencies.
—Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 Aug. 2023
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Over the course of her tenure, Dixon opened more than 80 probes into the biggest global players and levied over €2.8 billion in fines.
—Stephanie Bodoni, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
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James levied the $250 million fraud case against the former president last year.
—Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2023
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Safety concerns, such as the risk of stroke, have been levied against chiropractic care.
—Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
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The County Board of Supervisors would also need a two-thirds vote to levy the sales tax increase.
—Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
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Ohio has no corporate income tax but does levy a tax on gross receipts.
—Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2023
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Last month the company announced plans to levy fees on online grocery orders of less than $150.
—Spencer Soper, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023
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And if a golfer fails to show up for their reservation, an additional $10 no-show penalty will be levied.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Christie has levied attacks against his other 2024 rivals in recent days.
—Nnamdi Egwuonwu, NBC News, 25 July 2023
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Hyatt decamped to Nevada, which does not levy income tax.
—K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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The new law passed at voters’ behest also allows for the state to collect a 9 percent tax on cannabis sales, which is the amount levied for alcohol.
—Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
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The attorney general, Letitia James, has asked a judge to levy a penalty of about $370 million on Mr. Trump.
—Kate Christobek, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
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Last year, California became the first state in the nation to levy a tax on guns and ammunition.
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
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Tennessee has a 7% state sales tax, though local governments can also levy a sales tax of up to 2.75%.
—Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2023
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The order states that the civil fine levied by ADEM does not shield the landfill owners from any criminal penalties related to the fire.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
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The new tax is levied against the buyer for residential property sales of $1 million or more — with no tax on the first $1 million in value.
—Morgan Lee, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
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Illinois law does not require an appeals process for a fine levied by a condominium board.
—Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
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But in the nearly two years of protests against Cop City, domestic-terrorism charges have been levied against 42 people protesting the project, and one person has been killed.
—Curbed, 21 June 2023
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The state levied a more than $5 million fine against them for drinking water violations.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
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More than a dozen bills to address Alaska’s long-term fiscal outlook have been introduced in the House this year, including a bill to levy a 2% sales tax.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023
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For most of its history, ancient Egypt levied taxes on goods, with officials collecting dues in the form of grain, textiles, labor, cattle and other commodities.
—Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
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