What's the difference between impost and tariff?

Impost


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.
  • (n.) The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (2) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (3) US and Canadian oil policies, especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta, would increase the chances of global calamities, the imposters told their audience - but reassured them that the industry could keep "fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who died into oil.
  • (4) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
  • (5) The imposter phenomenon describes individuals who at times feel as if they are imposters in their chosen profession.
  • (6) "Facilitated by organised criminals, this typically involved invigilators supplying, even reading out, answers to whole exam rooms or gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test.
  • (7) Mansoor’s name first rose to public prominence in 2010 when western intelligence officials spent tens of thousands of dollars ferrying a “senior commander” to Kabul for peace talks, only to discover that they had been courting an imposter , a grocer pretending to be Mansoor.
  • (8) Manchester United missed out on signing the Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera not because the deal was hijacked by "imposters" , but due to their failure to understand the complexities of Spanish buy-out clauses.
  • (9) There is an overblown budget emergency to justify nasty imposts on low income earners.
  • (10) June 6, 2014 ( Note: There's a possibility that this tweet is actually not from the real Brian Scalabrine, but some Twitter imposter.
  • (11) They are seeing through him.” A spokesman for Ukip said the move had been made, in part, because imposters were using the Ukip logo on racist social media accounts in order to embarrass the party.
  • (12) Sissoko broke on several occasions and it was surprising to see how many of Tottenham’s players faded or made errors to infuriate Pochettino who complained that Spurs were virtual imposters after the interval, impossible to make out from their first-half display.
  • (13) Some famous people make the mistake of shunning social media or using false names, leaving the field open for imposters who can do serious damage.
  • (14) At times he confessed to her that "he felt like an imposter.
  • (15) But, with an election campaign possibly just days away, the statement was also a political document, careful to spare households from any direct imposts and including in its fine print several hundred million dollars in “decisions taken but not yet announced”.
  • (16) Finally, the most distinguishing characteristics were identity delusions, possession delusions, grandiose delusions (other than identities and possessions), and delusions that their families were imposters (Capgras Syndrome) reported by paranoid schizophrenics.
  • (17) Whenever his country had gone through a period of doubt “or nearly disappeared”, he said, France was always able “to drive out the imposters in power and replace them with people who really loved our country.” The audience cheered.
  • (18) However, it now seems the trio were imposters and had nothing to do with United at all.
  • (19) And Palmer himself is often accused of being something of an imposter, claiming grand feats that aren’t quite what they seem or don’t quite eventuate.
  • (20) Baird has acknowledged that the GST is regressive – that is, lower income earners are hit harder because the impost represents a greater share of their disposable income – so says an increase would have to be accompanied by a compensation package for households earning up to $100,000 a year.

Tariff


Definition:

  • (n.) A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).
  • (n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.
  • (n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.
  • (v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
  • (2) Ofgem said separately that tougher rules taking effect on Tuesday would ban energy companies from increasing prices on fixed-term tariffs.
  • (3) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (4) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (5) • Feed-in tariffs (FITs) for small-scale renewables: Fears that existing FITs would be cut were unfounded.
  • (6) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (7) Fact-check: Donald Trump on trade, globalization and the Clintons Read more While not mentioning Trump by name, Lagarde made it clear she strongly opposed the Republican candidate’s policies, which include higher US tariffs and a barrier along the border with Mexico.
  • (8) It said 3,531 IPP prisoners had passed their tariffs – the dates set by their trial judge for their earliest release.
  • (9) Britain’s biggest energy provider said that the price cut, which will take effect from 27 August, would reduce annual energy bills on average by £35 and benefit 6.9 million of its customers on Standard and Fix & Fall tariffs.
  • (10) The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, which represents carmakers, also says any move to reduce quickly the 5% tariff on imported cars – which will make new cars up to $2000 cheaper – may also force earlier closure.
  • (11) "It really likes the fact that 95% of cars on the road are built here, thanks to very high tariffs on imported cars.
  • (12) Taking out low-risk, high-volume, interventions which injected money into the NHS – due to the pricing of the tariff – is exposing NHS hospitals to the risk of financial failure.
  • (13) Experts say it is not delivering fast enough and a campaign for a feed-in tariff is growing, although the government dismisses FITs as too "interventionist".
  • (14) At £977 a year, its Thames Online tariff fixes prices for 12 months – and customer service reports are more positive.
  • (15) All households should therefore check their tariff and search the market to see if they can save money elsewhere, and consider fixing.
  • (16) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
  • (17) First Utility's cheapest fixed rate tariff, iSave Fixed v4, which sets prices until March 2014, costs £1,087.
  • (18) A spokeswoman for the prime minister claimed that Ofgem's proposals, which would prevent suppliers from offering any more than four primary tariffs for each fuel type, would sit alongside Cameron's stated plans for legislation which could force suppliers to give customers the cheapest deals.
  • (19) If prices rise by 10% from current levels users will, on average, be £142 a year better off on the EDF tariff.
  • (20) Another difficulty is that the US is faster and more determined than the EU to impose tariffs when it judges that illegal Chinese dumping is taken place.