surcharge
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If you go over $109,000 for the year, you’re going to pay an income-related surcharge called IRMAA.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I can't believe banks would leave the UK just because we are restoring the surcharge to where it was in 2023. Bank share prices have risen faster here than in New York," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Starbucks has been winning back customers with changes that range from bringing back the condiment bar to getting rid of a surcharge for nondairy milk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Trucks also drive what are called “empty miles,” or miles driven between shipments, that are not covered by a surcharge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was $600 in all, a hefty sum in 1915—plus the surcharge for interest.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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The recent price spikes, however, make it harder to manage fuel costs, even with the surcharges in place, as trucking companies might base any extra fees on prices that are no longer current.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Operators pass on the resulting costs by applying low-water surcharges, which they introduce progressively if river levels keep falling.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The forecast restrictions to navigation are the latest in a series of low-water warnings affecting shipping that are spurring carriers to impose special surcharges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
I have a handle on Medicare surcharges and the $6,000 senior additional deduction rules.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 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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Homeowners would not be surcharged for commercial losses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
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
More merchants, especially small businesses, in recent years have begun passing on the interchange fees they incur to consumers by surcharging them when they pay with credit cards.
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
Weeping had not eased her bosom; she had only become more conscious of the load of tears surcharging it.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
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