surcharge
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If you’re hit with an airline surcharge for the emergency flight, ask for a refund.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Adding insult to injury, he estimates you will have to pay another $1,315 annual income-related monthly adjusted amount, or IRMAA, surcharge on your Medicare premiums, bringing your total tax bill to $19,681.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The company was fined £150,000 and told to pay a victim surcharge of £11,250 at Inverness Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Trucking companies with long-term customers can generally pass on the higher fuel costs by adding a fuel surcharge in the bill, but truck drivers taking on short-term contracts—as Whitaker does—typically don’t get this benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Alabama charges a 30 percent collection fee, and Florida allows private debt collectors to tack on a 40 percent surcharge to the underlying debt.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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A total of 105 insurers, including State Farm General — California’s largest home insurer — Farmers and Mercury sought and received approval for the surcharges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
New tariffs and fuel surcharges are sparking competition for space on containerships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Old Dominion Freight Line reported revenue per hundredweight excluding fuel surcharges rose 5.4% year-over-year for the second quarter through May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Higher ticket prices and fuel surcharges are also prompting many travellers to change holiday plans for the peak summer season in the northern hemisphere, often choosing to save money by staying closer to home.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
On top of that, probation officers in most states can require that an individual dedicate 35 percent of his or her income toward the payment of fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution charged by numerous agencies.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Condo owners and renters on average were surcharged less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Of the 777 surcharged penalty notices issued for LEZ contraventions in July, 689 were for a second breach where the penalty rate was £120.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
“An innovative app or website or startup may never get off the ground because it could be surcharged to death, buried in search results or ripped off completely.”
From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2022
While city leaders shrug their shoulders at trash-strewn encampments, Seattle homeowners can rest assured that any additional trash left outside the bin on collection day will be appropriately surcharged.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
In spite of his calm demeanor, calm voice, he was charged and surcharged with a will to action, a readiness to take and enjoy any desperate chance.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Other terms of this proposed settlement include more options for credit surcharging.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
The agreement would have created a little more flexibility for merchants that want to charge consumers extra when they pay by credit card, a practice known as surcharging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
“The delay has helped, especially since the biggest publisher, Canada’s Transcontinental,” has offered to absorb the cost burden of the tariffs instead of surcharging its clients.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
As for more money, he suggested surcharging passengers for their trips through tunnels, capturing revenue from commercial development around stations and allowing the authority to issue revenue bonds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
I had done thus, although my high-church principles had hindered me from surcharging the phantom with the usual quantity of deformity.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
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