levy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with levy, each labelled with its topic.

• A modest levy on plastic bags cut usage by half within a year and funded the recycling depots.

  Economics

• Council members split over a levy on short term rentals, with three of them owning apartments downtown.

  Politics

• Shareholders questioned a levy on foreign transfers that quietly added forty basis points to every overseas payment.

  Finance

• The city adds a tourist levy of two euros to every hotel night, which pays for cleaning the old town squares.

  Travel

• A carbon levy on heating oil pushed thousands of households to switch to heat pumps within three winters.

  Environment

• Developers pay a levy on every new tower, and the money funds the parks the extra residents will need.

  Architecture

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