excise

Example Sentences

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The group said excise duty accounted for about 70% of the price of an average bottle of spirits sold in the UK.

From BBC

Armed excise officers, with a sniffer dog, sped across the Ganges on a boat to raid an illegal distillery.

From BBC

Since April of this year, electric cars stopped being exempt from vehicle excise duty, due to a change made in the 2022 Budget.

From BBC

Pantheon Macro estimates the U.S. has collected $34 billion this month in customs and excise tax—on track to $400 billion over a year in tariff revenue.

From Barron's

Its opening words say: “All legislative powers ... shall be vested” in Congress, and the elected representatives “shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposes and excises.”

From Los Angeles Times