(v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
(v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
(v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
(n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
(n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wrote to Uber, which stated that it adds a 2.6 surcharge on days when there is likely to be a lot of demand – it was Ladies’ Day.
(2) The local council is calling on food and drink shops to impose a 10p surcharge on all sugary soft beverages, with the proceeds to be put into a children’s health and food education trust.
(3) Not only did they sit on their hands when they knew about the extra surcharge for the UK, we now learn they also underestimated the scale of the UK’s contribution in 2013.
(4) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(5) Energy firms would be required to impose the same surcharge for direct debit.
(6) Hatoyama will have to reconcile his bold initiative with election pledges to eliminate road tolls and petrol surcharges.
(7) If they pay the capital amount on an agreed instalment basis, that should be sufficient.” The UK’s position could be further weakened by indications that the Netherlands – which was hit with a £600m surcharge – is ready to go along with the deal.
(8) In miniature, Sajid Javid’s approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
(9) Revenue from the state surcharge would be earmarked for the states.
(10) France has been considering a 3% surcharge on earnings over €500,000, and Spain is considering a return to a wealth tax.
(11) Islington council will introduce a £96 per year diesel vehicle parking surcharge on 1 April.
(12) David Cameron’s refusal to pay a European budget surcharge of £1.7bn by the end of the month will incur punitive extra costs, with interest charged instantly on a rising monthly scale, the new European commission warned on Monday on its first working day in office.
(13) Isles such as Mykonos and Santorini would see a surcharge on hotel rooms, services and goods.
(14) Similarly, Sanders is running against the political establishment and calling for a fundamental restructuring of the social compact; grounded by premium-free healthcare and free public college , funded by steep tax hikes on the rich and across-the-board surcharges and fueled by what he’s calling a “political revolution”.
(15) Employers may use these data to reduce costs by not hiring tobacco users, adding surcharges for their health insurance, and strongly encouraging cessation.
(16) Financial planning for an RDF includes four analytical tasks: assessment of the potential market, estimation of the costs of an RDF, establishment of the cost-recovery objectives, definition of the role of subsidies and surcharges.
(17) We have had a strong start to the year with a record first quarter driven by a number of sales transactions being brought forward before the introduction of the additional stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-let properties,” Budden said.
(18) Judge John Stobart ordered the protesters to pay £10 compensation each to the RAF, £75 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
(19) This surcharge will also apply even if the main home you currently own is overseas.
(20) The penalty is in addition to fines, victim surcharges, compensation orders and prosecution costs.
Tax
Definition:
(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(4) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(5) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(6) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(8) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(9) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(10) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(11) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(12) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(13) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(15) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(16) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(17) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(18) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(19) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(20) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.