Example sentences of "tax was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they could imagine was that some new sort of tax was to be imposed on them . |
| 2 | If the tax was to be announced before the May 2nd local elections , time was getting short . |
| 3 | On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related . |
| 4 | The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors . |
| 5 | He called the council tax the poll tax mark II and said that the new tax was to be bulldozed through the House . |
| 6 | In addition , a 10 per cent tax was to be charged on purchases of new private aircraft over $250,000 , boats above $100,000 , automobiles above $30,000 , and furs and jewellery above $10,000 . |
| 7 | Corporation tax was to be reduced from 50.8 to 28 per cent , although the overall corporate tax burden would remain virtually unchanged because the range of deductible items would be reduced . |
| 8 | The basic rate of income tax was to be reduced from 29p to 27p in the punt , and the upper 52 per cent tax rate was to be abolished , leaving a single higher rate of 48 per cent . |
| 9 | Ahern also paid special attention to the motor industry , with a 1.7 per cent cut in car excise duty and a 9p per gallon reduction in petrol taxes , but vehicle road tax was to be increased by 20 per cent . |